Increase gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs and services.

Post date: Apr 4, 2015 11:05:19 PM

1. Increase gender equity in HIV/AIDS programs and services.

a) Support countries in identifying the social, legal, economic and

cultural barriers that prevent women and girls, as well as men

and boys, from accessing essential health services, and tailor HIV

prevention, treatment and care programs to address these barriers

and meet their needs.

b) Strengthen surveillance efforts both to ensure that adolescent girls

and young women are being adequately represented in samples and

that the reasons behind their higher risk are well understood in the

country context.

c) To the extent feasible, disaggregate data by sex and age in all health

service programs, including those serving adolescent girls and young

women, to track service uptake and provision.

d) Encourage countries to integrate a range of health services to

increase their efficiency and convenience, meeting the multiple

needs of women and girls.

GENDER JUSTICE OF NEVADA

2. Prevent and respond to GBV through integration across prevention, care and treatment programs.

Provide continued support through PEPFAR gender central initiatives, including

Support for integration and evaluation of gbv-related programming,

Completion of the GBV response initiative and

Continued implementation of the gender challenge fund.

GENDER JUSTICE OF NEVADA

3. Encourage implementing partners providing pediatric and adult treatment and care, as well as PMTCT, to adopt evidence-based best practices in youth-friendly health care and services.

a) Support positive youth development through peer networks and mentorship programs in elementary and secondary schools and for out-of-school youth—with a particular focus on girls.

b) Develop specific programming for out-of-school adolescent and pre-adolescents, including males and married adolescent girls.

c) Link health activities to education and viable livelihoods programs.

d) Work with communities to change behavior and attitudes towards child marriage and support community programs that implement specific I interventions to increase age at marriage, such as keeping girls in school.

e) Support interventions to prevent and respond to sexual abuse and coercion of minors, working with male teachers and other male authority figures in girls’ lives with whom they may engage in sexual activity.

Based Interventions for Populations at Greatest Risk

PEPFAR Goal: Promoting Sustainability, Efficiency and Effectiveness