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Interagency action linking gender-based violence and HIV

Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS and UN women

Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) ‘Agenda for Women and Girls’

Action Area #1:Jointly generate better evidence and increased understanding of the specific needs of w omen and girls in the context of HIV and ensure tailored national AIDS responses (“knowing your epidemic and response”) Action Area #3: Champion leadership for an enabling environment that promotes and protects w omen’s and girls’ human rights and their empow erment, in the context of HIV Action Area #2: . Translate political commitments into scaled-up action and resources that address the rights and needs of w omen and girls in the context of HIV

Partnership for Results - to accelerate country action for women and girls

National AIDS Response UNAIDS and UNIFEM will partner with:

• Government ministries
• National AIDS

Authorities

• Women’s health and

rights groups

• Human rights
• rganizations
• AIDS service and

advocacy groups

• HIV-positive women’s

groups

• Community
• rganizations
• Service providers
• Employers, unions
• Schools, etc.

Action in the UN Joint Programme on HIV/AIDS

UNAIDS Strategy: Getting to Zero

• Zero new infections
• Zero AIDS-related deaths
• Zero discrimination
• Includes a commitment to advancing human rights and gender equality for the HIV

response, with a goal of zero tolerance for gender-based violence

UNAIDS Action for Results

• Bold results to be achieved by 2011, as part of the priority to “meet

the HIV needs of women and girls and stop violence against women” includes the outcomes:

• 15 countries will have initiated implementation of a comprehensive set of actions to

address and prevent violence against women.

• At least 50% of the high HIV prevalence countries that have operationalized the

Secretary General’s UNiTE Campaign, have integrated HIV into the campaign

Interagency work: addressing the intersection of HIV and violence against women and girls:2009 (IAWG)

• Addressing violence against women

and HIV: What Works? expert meeting reviewed the current state of evidence and practice in developing and implementing interventions and strategies to address the intersections of violence against women and HIV

– programming guide forthcoming

• The Interagency Working Group worked

with the Harvard School of Public Health (PIHHR) to assess of evidence about the intersection of HIV and gender-based violence

– identifies gaps and sets priorities – proposes key messages for donors, policy- makers.

Interagency Work: Integrating GBV and gender- transformative engagement of men and boys into NSPs

IAWG with Sonke Gender Justice and the Athena Network, Salamander Trust and the MenEngage Alliance convened a working meeting to:

• Strengthen attention to GBV in national

strategic plans on HIV and AIDS,

– bringing together multi-sectoral teams from seven priority countries, including organizations working to address violence against women and girls and GBV

• Develop and operationalize strategies that

engage men and boys in transforming social norms

– with representatives from 15 countries

• Expand partnerships for action on GBV and

engagement of men and boys for gender equality

• Ongoing support to countries to implement

Interagency Work: Universal Action for Women and Girls Now!

A two-year initiative to empower women and girls in context of gender-sensitive national HIV responses

• accelerates country-driven, country-led

processes to address barriers to universal access to HIV prevention, treatment, care and support.

– India and nine countries in East and Southern Africa with Joint Teams and implementing partners (NGO and government), comprising Country Task Teams. – Malawi and Kenya focus on GBV – Partnership with the World YWCA