Skills-building for gender mainstreaming in HIV/AIDS: research and practice: seminar proceedings

OUTPUT TYPE: Monograph (Book)
PUBLICATION YEAR: 2007
TITLE EDITOR(S): B.Prince, S.Pugh, S.Kleintjes
KEYWORDS: GENDER, HIV/AIDS
DEPARTMENT: Public Health, Societies and Belonging (HSC)
Web link: https://www.hsrcpress.ac.za/books/skills-building-for-gender-mainstreaming-in-hiv-aids-research-and-practice
Print: HSRC Library: shelf number 4365
HANDLE: 20.500.11910/6287
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11910/6287

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Abstract

The impact of gender in fuelling HIV/AIDS has become a fundamental aspect of addressing the pandemic. It is clear that gender plays a pivotal role in how women and men respond to counselling, testing, treatment, care and prevention programmes. This report contains the presentations delivered at the gender and HIV/AIDS-themed sessions held during the 3rd African Conference of the Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance (SAHARA), held in Dakar, in October 2005. The first section provides an overview of some of the critical gender and HIV/AIDS theory; the second section contains presentations on how to design gender-sensitive research and how to extract gender-relevant data from existing research data, as well as how to move from research to advocacy to policy; presentations in the third section contain worksheets that can be used in training others to use a gendered lens. SAHARA provides a vehicle for the sharing of scientific research and information, and a platform for scientists, policy-makers, programme implementers and communities in Africa to discuss ways to improve HIV/AIDS-related policies, programmes and strategies.