|UNAIDS Action Framework: Addressing Women, Girls, Gender
Equality, and HIV| This publication focuses on the critical need
to scale up policies and programming for women, girls, gender
equality and HIV. The Action Framework focuses on the following
three areas in which UNAIDS Cosponsors, Secretariat, and UNIFEM
can bring specific and unique contributions: 1) strengthening
strategic guidance and support to national partners to “know
their epidemic and response” in order to effectively meet the
needs of women and girls, 2) assisting countries to ensure that
national HIV development strategies, operational plans, and
monitoring and evaluation frameworks and associated budgets
address the needs and rights of women and girls in the context
of HIV, and 3) advocacy, capacity strengthening and mobilization
of resources to deliver a comprehensive set of measures to
address the needs and rights of women and girls in the context
of HIV. Article can be accessed on-line here in PDF format. To
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