1. Reversing the Impact of HIV & AIDS on
Women & Girls: Balancing the Scale
Folashade .A. Bamigboye.
Programme Manager,
Kids & Teens Resource Centre, Nigeria

2. Objectives To showcase the workload between men and women
To ensure that Men are willing to play complementary roles to share in the care and support for persons living with HIV.

3. Introduction
By virtue of biological makeup and nature, women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to HIV (In sub-Saharan Africa, women acquire HIV five to seven years earlier than men). Incidentally they are the champions for impact mitigation interventions and unfortunately the poorest economically.
Women account for two thirds of all caregivers for people living with HIV in Africa; women also comprise 70% of the world’s poor and two-thirds of the world’s illiterate. (UNAIDS 2008: Report on the Global AIDS Epidemic, Executive Summary).

4. What can women and girls do to contribute more actively to HIV response?
What complementary roles can men play to share the care and support responsibilities

5. I am a young woman. I face these issues.
Source: UNAIDS GAP report 2014

6. Why women and girls carry the burden
Gender-inequality drives HIV & AIDS
Weak public health systems
Societal norms and custom
Community & home based care in response to HIV & AIDS
Policies that do not translate into action

7. Balancing the Scale
Greater involvement of men and boys in delivering home and community based care;
Strengthening public health systems.
End all forms of gender-based violence
Keep girls in school
Empower young women and girls, challenge and change social norms