HIV and AIDS

This book from the Working in Gender & Development series brings together HIV- and AIDS-themed selections of the articles from the Oxfam journal Gender & Development. It examines the key challenges of HIV and AIDS from a gender perspective, and describes positive responses in areas of the world as diverse as Cambodia, South Africa, the United Kingdom (UK), and Papua New Guinea.

The contributors analyse the links between HIV, AIDS, gender inequality, and poverty. They present accounts of successful interventions, recording experience, describing good practice, and sharing information about resources. This book is designed for development practitioners and policy makers involved in responding to the HIV and AIDS crisis.

Contents include:

• Introduction - Alice Welbourn
• Part I: Exploring the root causes of HIV
• HIV/AIDS, globalisation, and the international women’s movement - Sisonke Msimang
• Challenges and opportunities for promoting the girl child’s rights in the face of HIV/AIDS - Mildred Tambudzai Mushunje
• ‘I’m too young to die’: HIV, masculinity, danger and desire in urban South Africa - Shannon Walsh and Claudia Mitchell
• A gendered response to HIV/AIDS in South Asia and the Pacific: insights from the pandemic in Africa - Madhu Bala Nath
• Safe motherhood in the time of AIDS: the illusion of reproductive ‘choice’ - Carolyn Baylies
• Part II: Rethinking ‘our’ attitudes to ‘others’ realities
• Diversifying gender: male to female transgender identities and HIV/AIDS programming in Phnom Penh, Cambodia - Barbara Earth
• Young men and HIV - Doortje Braeken, Raoul Fransen, and Tim Shand
• HIV-positive African women surviving in London: report of a qualitative study - Lesley Doyal and Jane Anderson
• Part III: Practical multiple approaches
• Mitigating impacts of HIV/AIDS on rural livelihoods: NGO experiences in sub-Saharan Africa - Joanna White and John Morton
• Danger and opportunity: responding to HIV with vision - Kate Butcher and Alice Welbourn
• ‘Mainstreaming’ HIV in Papua New Guinea: putting gender equity first - Janet Seeley and Kate Butcher
• Part IV: Positive agency and action
• Advocacy training by the International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS - The International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS
• Conclusion - Alice Welbourn
• Resources - Joanna Hoare
• Index