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ICRW Champions for Change Gala - March 4, 2009 - Washington, DC

Closing the Gender Gap in HIV

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Geeta Rao Gupta discusses her plenary speech at the IX International Congress on AIDS and Asia in the Pacific (ICAAP) in Bali, Indonesia, on what’s needed to ensure effective action in the fight against gender inequality and HIV.

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Sex, Rights and the Law in a World with AIDS

cover imageSex, Rights and the Law in a World with AIDS explores why the AIDS response has made little progress on the prevention of sexually transmitted HIV, and what should be done to ensure a more effective long-term response.

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Got Gender? Many African HIV Programs Do

Download the compendiumICRW provided technical oversight for a new compendium that explores how HIV programs in Africa successfully weave multiple gender strategies into program design.

The full compendium is available at www.aidstar-one.com.

Moving Beyond Gender As Usual

 

Moving Beyond Gender as UsualHow well are the world’s three largest HIV donors addressing women’s vulnerabilities to the epidemic?

A new report, co-authored by ICRW and the Center for Global Development, provides recommendations on how funders can be more effective in tackling the gender dimensions of HIV.

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Modeling National HIV Responses

 

Mamma's Club

Dr. Lydia Mungherera is working with ICRW on an innovative project that aims to strengthen gender strategies for national HIV/AIDS policies that can translate into impact on the ground.

HIV/AIDS Stigma Finding Solutions to Strengthen HIV/AIDS Programs

HIV/AIDS Stigma Finding Solutions to Strengthen HIV/AIDS Programs

Learn more about ICRW's work on stigma.

 

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HIV AND AIDS

Research | Insight | Action & Advocacy | Projects

The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to take a brutal toll on women and girls, whose low status due to gender inequality remains a principal driver of the epidemic. Women's vulnerabilities — including gendered power differentials and biological vulnerabilities — are great obstacles to accessing HIV/AIDS prevention information, treatment and care.

Our research is helping to turn the tide against AIDS.

Research

ICRW was one of the first organizations to focus on the rapid spread of HIV and AIDS among women in developing countries. Our first research program on women and AIDS in the early 1990s examined the social, economic and gender factors fueling the spread of HIV and AIDS among women. Today we continue to push the AIDS agenda forward.

Insight

We now know the different ways in which gendered imbalances of power and resources between women and men increase women's risk and vulnerability to HIV. ICRW is working with nongovernmental organizations, international government agencies, and donors worldwide to devise tools and strategies to integrate gender into programs that fight HIV and AIDS.

Our groundbreaking work on HIV stigma and discrimination has produced tools to reduce stigma and indicators to evaluate the effectiveness of stigma-reduction efforts.

Learn more about ICRW's work on stigma.

Action & Advocacy

Awareness among policymakers and the public of the impact of the HIV/AIDS epidemic on women and girls has risen dramatically. ICRW is working with coalitions and various U.S. government offices to ensure that funding for HIV and AIDS goes to programs that find gender-equitable solutions for prevention and treatment.

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