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Who are the most at risk and most affected women and girls in your networks/country/region?
How can we engage and strengthen the voices of women and girls in all their diversity, particularly those most at risk and most affected by HIV and AIDS?
What are the key issues facing the women and girls that you work with?
Hi all, Holla from Busan!!
On 25th Aug-prior to ICAAP 10, women and girls were mobilize to strategically engage within ICAAP process and beyond. 30 women and girls from Asia and Pacific region engage for the creation of the statement:
ACCESS TO TREATMENT AND SERVICES
Key affected women and girls are entitled to equal and stigma-free access; must be able to exercise their right to comprehensive education, services, and commodities related to sexual and reproductive health including HIV prevention, treatment, care, and support.
TREATMENT AS PREVENTION
Key affected women and girls must have equitable access to treatment literacy. Programmes must be rights-based and gender-sensitive; must not limit women’s full range of choices; and must be considered in the larger context of sexual and reproductive health and rights. Recent work on intimate partner transmission should be used to inform approaches to comprehensive counselling and treatment as prevention in the context of serodiscordant couples.
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL PROTECTION
Recent studies in this region have clearly demonstrated that traditional and entrenched gender inequities exacerbate the disproportionate impact of this socio-economic burden on key affected women and girls underscoring the need for gendered approaches to social protection and human rights. Policy responses aimed at addressing the socio-economic impact of HIV must include specific programmes to address the impact on women and girls. Programmes must actively involve women and girls in design and implementation; and must incorporate the multiple roles that women and girls occupy in their contexts. Programmes must be sensitive to the difference between protection of human rights and violations of those very rights; respecting the self-determination and autonomy of women and girls. Sexual and reproductive rights must be recognised as a basic human right.
Hello from Busan. I visited the stall of 7-sisters and inspired by this unique platform to be involved for ‘Women and Girls’ from the region. I Presented a paper today on ” Limited mobility is still barriers of rural women in accessing information – A study of a short film in Bangladesh”, where I have highlighted the and demanded gender-responsive and culture-sensitive HIV awareness program design for women and girls. I will join tomorrow 28 August at “Donor-NGO dialogue” on key affected women and girls in a concentrated epidemic” session and also other sessions which have prioritized gender issue.