Transcript Some Actions to End Child Marriage

Some Actions to End Child Marriage
 Enforce laws against child marriage
 Promote dialogue with traditional
leaders to change social norms
 Raise awareness of the repercussions
Make shelters available to girls who
evade child marriage
Integrate child marriage prevention
programmes into HIV
Access to HIV Treatment, Care and Support for Women and Girls
Monitor and devise interventions to ensure that women are accessing antiretroviral therapy
on an equitable basis with men
Address gender-based violence, denial, and fear of disclosure to partners that can deter
women from accessing or adhering to treatment.
Make ART, nutritional and psychosocial support affordable and accessible
Scale-up comprehensive PMTCT programmes
Build capacity for rights-based SRH for women living with HIV
Support research on the gender-specific aspects of HIV (e.g. toxicity, viral load setpoints, CD4
count, drug interactions, etc.)
Expand coverage of services and eliminate barriers (such as cost, stigma, and discrimination)
that inhibit women from getting care
Preventing HIV and Unintended Pregnancies:
through PMTCT Programmes
 Treat sexually transmitted infections
 Provide support for women subjected to
sexual violence
 Involve male partners
 Increase awareness of risk
 Ensure blood safety and treat anaemia
 Address health provider stigma and
discrimination
 Make universal precautions available
 Provide condoms and support their use,
including during pregnancy and breastfeeding
 Offer sexual and reproductive health
including family planning counselling
Rights of People Living with HIV
• Women have a right to decide
freely on matters related to their
sexuality and to their sexual and
reproductive health, free of
coercion, discrimination and
violence
• Right to a safe and satisfying sex
life and to making reproductive
choices regardless of HIV serostatus
• Global reports of human rights
violations for women living with
HIV (coerced abortion, forced
sterilization, failure to counsel
on safer sex, confidentiality
breaches)
Education for girls
Remove barriers to universal access to primary, and
especially secondary, and tertiary, education to curb
the spread of HIV through acquisition of vital life skills,
awareness of rights, and higher income-earning
potential (e.g.eliminate school
fees and
other financial barriers such as
compulsory school uniforms, textbook
charges, and activity fees to boost the
number of girls in school)
Implement effective approaches for making schools
safe for young women and girls.
Property and Inheritance Rights
Devise programmes that protect women whose
partners fall sick and die due to AIDS-related
illnesses, and women living with HIV, from
discrimination, abandonment, violence, loss of their
homes, inheritance, possessions, and livelihoods
Establish, reform and enforce laws and policies that
secure access to, ownership and control over land
and other assets to uphold women’s property and
inheritance rights (including harmonization of
statutory and customary laws)
Develop and support community-based initiatives
that provide legal advice and skills training to protect
women’s property and inheritance rights
Some Actions to Eliminate Gender-Based Violence
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Integrate strategies to eliminate gender-based violence into national AIDS plans
Build capacity of health providers to recognize violence and respond
Provide post-exposure prophylaxis to prevent HIV
Integrate HIV prevention and anti-violence training into microfinance
Conduct workshops with men and boys to change gender power dynamics
Engage in community dialogue to change harmful attitudes and behaviours
Enact and enforce laws that prevent violence against women
Remove barriers to accessing sexual and reproductive health services for women
who experience gender-based violence
 Link violence prevention efforts with HIV prevention and treatment services
Female Controlled Prevention
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Develop political and social support among
stakeholders – including donors, clients,
service providers, researchers, and
policymakers – to increase public awareness,
acceptance, and supply of female condoms.
Integrate female condoms into the core
service package of existing HIV prevention and
reproductive health programmes, including
through national health ministry
procurements of condoms for clinics,
hospitals, etc., and explore other channels of
distribution.
Community based care
Advocate for awareness of the magnitude
and implications of women’s unpaid care
work in terms of social and economic costs
and benefits, both to themselves, their
communities and the larger society
Scale up and broaden social protection and
support for caregivers at community and
household level
Conduct community-based advocacy for
changes in the gender division of domestic
labour at household level and achievement
of gender equity in care responsibilities
Provide information about AIDS care and
economic support to care givers, along with
practical help so they can access pensions
and other entitlements
Most at Risk and other Key Populations
Policies and programmes that place gender, risk
and vulnerability at the core of HIV prevention,
treatment, care and support responses.
Integration of HIV prevention, treatment, care
and support specifically addressing the needs of
women and girls from most at risk and key
populations into National AIDS Plans &
Strategies.
Advocacy to protect and promote their human,
economic, social and cultural rights.
Programmes that eliminate stigma and
discrimination and gender based violence for
women and girls in most at risk and other key
Most at Risk and other Key Populations
Integration of HIV services for key
populations into primary health care,
including services for sexually transmitted
infections, sexual and reproductive health,
family planning, prevention of mother to
child transmission, and tuberculosis services,
including for those living with HIV and AIDS..
The introduction of legislative and/or
administrative directives to police, judicial,
correctional services facilitating the provision
of services to, and uptake by, key
populations.
Technical support to service providers
including support on skills training,
sensitization, gender and cultural awareness
training to reduce barriers to service
utilisation by women and girls.
Most at Risk and other Key Populations
Income support (including cash grants,
subsidies for education), income
generation and livelihood sustainability
provided to women and girls in key
populations affected by, or living with,
HIV.
Operational research to improve
interventions aimed at protecting the
wives and partners of men who buy sex.
Programmes and research that address
the particular HIV vulnerabilities and risks
of girls and women in humanitarian crises
and post crises settings (including conflict
and post conflict).