Responses from the International Center for Research on Women, Washington DC and New Delhi to the questions posed about the Draft Gender Equality Strategy, Global Fund to Fight AIDS Country Coordinating Mechanisms [ Read background ], 1. How can CCMs be encouraged to ensure meaningful representation...

This is my first post in this forum and I am gratified to know that there are so many knowledgeable and concerned people around the world on this issue. I gives me renewed hope that we will defeat HIV/AIDS. Second, let me just say how much respect that I have for the Global Fund. Seldom will you see...

I am so pleased to read that the GF is working on a "gender equity strategy". This is so important as women are incresingly becoming infected and affected by HIV and AIDS and there is so little is being done in addressing women vulnerabilities to HIV at the community level. For this initiative...

With the majority of people on antiretroviral treatment being women (56% at the end of 2007*), should the Global Fund’s gender strategy focus more on men rather than concentrating on women and girls? (This question is also available in: Español - Français - Русский ) In April, this e...