| Short Summary | | Title | Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic (English, Chinese and Russian) | | Author | United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) | | Publication Date | June 2002 | | Publisher | United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) | | Summary | In the Declaration adopted at the UN General Assembly Special Session on HIV/ AIDS (UNGASS) in June 2001, states committed themselves to a wide range of actions to combat the HIV/AIDS epidemics, many of which address its gender dimensions. This book contributes to an increased understanding of how women's human rights can be put to work to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective. The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) has special relevance for different aspects of the pandemic, such as gender-based violence and sexual exploitation, access to health services, gender inequality and safer sex, issues of care and care- giving, education, and discriminatory cultural practices and stereotypes. Governments have to ensure, for example, that prevention education programmes are specifically designed to reach women and girls and that these programmes take into account the barriers to information that are created by stereotyped gender roles of both men and women.
The Chinese version is available at: http://www.unchina.org/unifem/chinese/AIDS-1.pdf and the Russian version is available at: http://www.genderandaids.org/downloads/topics/CEDAWandGenderDimensions.pdf
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