| Short Summary
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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. State parties 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. |
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