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From Commitment to Action: Implementing Effective Responses on Gender and AIDS |
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Non-Commercial Satellite |
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SR 5 (550) |
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18:30 - 20:30, 04.08.2008 |
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Kristan Schoultz, Switzerland
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 Click here to see a webcast of this session on kaisernetwork.org
This session will bring together AIDS and gender experts and practitioners from different regions and sectors, to address the intersection between gender and AIDS and explore experiences in advancing gender equality and empowering women through national AIDS responses. Government and civil society best practices will be highlighted, in addition to opportunities and challenges in scaling up programming and funding for gender action. Discussion topics will include approaches for assessing and understanding how HIV differentially affects females and males to strengthen national response efforts, and strategies for supporting and empowering positive women and men, women's groups, and marginalized communities to effectively engage in AIDS decision-making, planning and implementation processes. The session will consider the need for implementation of dedicated action on gender and AIDS, alongside mainstreaming of gender perspectives in AIDS interventions, to ensure that gender priorities can be adequately funded and sufficiently scaled-up. In addition, the session will address opportunities for linking action on AIDS with broader action on gender equality by forging partnerships between people and institutions working on AIDS, and people and institutions working on gender. Speakers will address the concept of 'knowing your epidemic' in gender terms, and the need to match AIDS responses to the gender-profile of national and local epidemics. This will include discussions on aligning programme investments in prevention, treatment and impact mitigation to the needs of affected populations, as well as to new and emerging patterns of infection among females, males and most at risk populations. Essential gender actions will be considered for countries facing generalized and hyper-endemic epidemics where women are disproportionately living with and affected by AIDS, as well as for concentrated epidemic settings where sex work, drug use and sex between males play a key role in epidemic dynamics. Additional issues that will be addressed include gender based violence, community gender norms, vulnerability of young women, HIV transmission in marriage and long-term relationships, and the role of men and boys in promoting gender equality.
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UNDP with UNAIDS Secretariat and UNIFEM
Presentations in this session:
18:30
MOSAT1201 | Addressing the nexus between gender, sexuality and vulnerability as a key aspect of national AIDS responses
Juan Jacobo Hernández, Mexico
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MOSAT1202
Powerpoint (190 KB) | Strengthening gender action through the national AIDS response - Tanzania's experience
Fatma Mrisho, Tanzania, United Republic of
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MOSAT1203 | Empowering positive women and strengthening leadership and capacity of women's networks for a more effective AIDS response
Kousalya Periasamy, India
| 19:15
MOSAT1204
Powerpoint (1.02 MB) | Enrolling men and boys in promoting gender equality as a key element in addressing HIV
Gary Barker, Brazil
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MOSAT1205 | Increasing women's participation in decision-making processes and AIDS coordination mechanisms - some examples and lessons learned
Nyaradzai Gumbonzvanda, Switzerland
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