July 2004
by Yasna Uberoi
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Women and Health
Global Prescriptions: Gendering Health and Human Rights
Rosalind PetcheskyThis book reviews a decade of women's participation in UN conferences, transnational networks, national advocacy efforts and sexual and reproductive health provision, assessing both their strengths and weaknesses. It critiques the Cairo, Beijing and Copenhagen conference documents and World Bank, WHO and health sector reform policies. It also offers case studies of national-level reform and advocacy efforts and appraises the controversy concerning TRIPS, trade, and essential AIDS drugs. That controversy, Petchesky argues, starkly illuminates the 'collision course' of transnational corporate and global trade agendas with the struggle for gender, racial and regional equity and the human right to health.2003. 320 pages. ISBN: 1842770071. WE 652. $25.00
Gender Mainstreaming in the Health Sector: Experiences in Commonwealth Countries
Commonwealth SecretariatImprovement in health remains a challenge for all. However, the problem is more acute for women. There is a disparity between women and men in their ability to gain access to health care appropriate to them.Furthermore, the low status of women in less developed countries has been identified as a major obstacle to development. If women are to gain better access to health care services they must be given the opportunity to work in partnership with men at all levels of the health sector, including the highest levels of policy-making. Together they must ensure that women‚s specific needs are identified and addressed appropriately.
This book is the result of consensus built up in a series of workshops in different regions of the Commonwealth on what is the most effective way of applying Gender Management System principles and methodology to the health sector. The differing contexts of financial, human and other resources explored in Mainstreaming Gender in the Health Sector will assist other countries in adapting mainstreaming to their own particular circumstances. This manual has been written to provide support and guidance to policy-makers, planners, non-governmental organizations, institutions and staff working in the health sector 2003. 87 pages. ISBN: 0 85092 733 1 $14.95
Additional Resources, Events and Websites
For a review of other excellent resources on women and health carried in the Women, Ink. collection, see Women, Ink. Booklink #35: Women and Health, October, 2003 at www.womenink.org.
XV International AIDS Conference, Bangkok, Thailand, 11-16 July 2004
Discussions on the increased vulnerability of women to the HIV/AIDS pandemic were prominent at the recent XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. Among the workshops and sessions UNIFEM convened or participated in were a satellite meeting on „Women and HIV/AIDS: It‚s Not as Simple as ABC‰, a learning session on „Engendering Response toHIV/AIDS: Learning from the Field, and Mobilizing Women Leaders in the Fight against HIV/AIDS, Critical Questions for Critical Times. Also taking place at the conference, was the launch of the report „Women and
HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis prepared jointly by UNIFEM, UNAIDS and UNFPA (see below for details).
For more information, visit: http://www.aids2004.org
Women and Aids: Confronting the Crisis
A Joint Report by UNAIDS / UNFPA / UNIFEM HIV/AIDS is no longer striking primarily men. Today, more than 20 years into the epidemic, women account for nearly half the 40 million people living with HIV worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa, 57 per cent of adults with HIV are women, and young women aged 15 to 24 are more than three times as likely to be infected as young men. Despite this alarming trend, women know less than men about how HIV/AIDS is transmitted and how to prevent infection, and what little they do know is often rendered useless by the discrimination and violence they face. This report is an urgent call to action to address the triple threat of gender inequality, poverty and HIV/AIDS. By tackling these forces simultaneously, we can reduce the spread of the epidemic and its devastating consequences.Women and Aids: Confronting the Crisis focuses on key areas identified by the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS ˆ an international pressure group ˆ as critical to an effective AIDS response.
2004. 75 pages
To receive the report in pdf format, write Yvans Joseph at:
Global Coalition on Women and AIDS
The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS is a growing, inclusive movement of partners and organizations launched in 2004 to work towards mitigating the impact of AIDS on women and girls worldwide. It seeks to promote concrete, effective action that will improve the daily lives of women and girls. The Coalition is developing global and national advocacy to highlight the effects of HIV and AIDS on women and girls, and is supporting partners to better coordinate and amplify their programs. Efforts focus on preventing HIV infection among adolescent girls through improved reproductive health care, reducing violence against women in both domestic and conflict situations, protecting the property and inheritance rights of women and girls, ensuring equal access to care and treatment, supporting improved community-based care, promoting access to prevention options for women including the female condom and microbicides, and supporting efforts for universal education for girls.For more information, visit: http://womenandaids.unaids.org/
UNIFEM and UNAIDS‚ web portal
A comprehensive gender and HIV/AIDS web portal which provides up-to-date resources on the gender dimensions of the HIV/AIDS epidemic with cutting-edge resources, training tools, news, research, women‚s stories, etc.For more information, visit: http://www.genderandAIDS.org
The Soul Beat, Issue 20, Women & HIV/AIDS
This issue of The Soul Beat focuses on communication experiences about HIV/AIDS and women. Articles featured focus on such issues as Enlightenment for Women on Female Condom Use, Positive Women: Voices and Choices, Saying No‚ to Sex: a Women's Right, and HIV/AIDS, Human Rights and Women in Nigeria. The Soul Beat is a collaboration among Soul Beat Africa, The Communication Initiative, with Africa editorial and network partner SANGONET. See <soul-@comminit.com>;Center for Disease Control
Fact Sheet: HIV/AIDS Among US Women: Minority and Young Women at Continuing RiskFor more information, visit: http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/women.htm
UNAIDS
The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) brings together nine UN agencies in a common effort to fight the epidemic: the United Nations Children‚s Fund (UNICEF), the World Food Programme (WFP), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), the World Health Organization (WHO), and the World Bank. UNAIDS, as a cosponsored programme, unites the responses to the epidemic of its nine cosponsoring organizations and supplements these efforts with special initiatives such as the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS. Its purpose is to lead and assist an expansion of the international response to HIV/AIDS on all fronts. UNAIDS works with a broad range of partners ˆ governmental and nongovernmental, business, scientific and lay ˆ to share knowledge, skills and best practices across boundaries.UNAIDS: 20 Avenue Appia CH-1211, Geneva 27, Switzerland Telephone:
(41)22-791-3666 Fax: (41)22-791-4187
For more information, visit: http://www.unaids.org
UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund, is the world's largest multilateral source of population assistance.
Since it became operational in 1969, it has provided help to developing countries, at their request, to meet reproductive health needs and support development efforts. UNFPA helps women, men and young people plan their families and avoid accidental pregnancies; undergo pregnancy and childbirth safely; avoid sexually transmitted infections, including HIV/AIDS; and combat discrimination and violence against women.UNFPA: 220 East 42nd Street, New York, NY 10017 USA
Tel: (1)212-297-5000 Fax: (1)212-557-6416 For more information, visit: http://www.unfpa.org
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