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Date Added to Site: 23rd January 2007 |
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Short Summary
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Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) |
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January 2004 |
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United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) |
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
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Short Summary
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Rising rates of HIV infection among women are a major cause for concern. Not only are girls and women highly susceptible to HIV infection - both biologically and as a result of gender inequality and discrimination - they are also less able to access treatment than men. Families of limited means may choose to pay for treatment for men rather than women, and the cost of transportation to clinics may be too high for women who do not earn an income or have limited access to resources. When combined with women's increasing burden of care work, the situation becomes untenable. This report is an urgent call to action to address the triple threat of gender inequality, poverty and HIV/AIDS. It urges governments and policy makers to ensure that national programmes address the constraints that make it difficult for HIV positive girls and women to access and adhere to treatment in the face of opposition and stigma. Health services should provide mobile health clinics, reduce or eliminate fees, provide child care at health centres and offer care to everyone in a family so no one member is treated at the expense of others. Governments and policy makers should also assume responsibility for the health-care needs of people living with HIV/AIDS so that individual women no longer solely bear the burden of their care.
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