Turning the Tide: CEDAW and the Gender Dimensions of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic

Contributes to understanding how the world's foremost blueprint for women's human rights can be put to work to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic from a gender perspective. The book is intended to be a resource for National AIDS Councils, HIV/AIDS activists, women's human rights activists, UN partners, and others who are doing work in this area. The publication discusses different aspects of the pandemic for which CEDAW has special relevance, such as gender-based violence and sexual exploitation, access to health services, gender inequality and safer sex, and issues of care and care-giving. The book also contains some of the key government responses that are required under CEDAW, guiding articles of the Convention, and statements of the CEDAW Committee that relate to HIV/AIDS

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