Women, Girls And HIV/AIDS: A Time For Action

Jordan Wilson

11/26/10

7:20pm

The United Nations has made HIV/AIDS and gender inequality a priority and has put into action some programmes and agendas that will help educate the women and girls around the world to prevent the AIDS pandemic to spread any further. The foundation of these agendas is recognition of basic human rights that belong to women. Women and girls have been victims of “power imbalances, unequal opportunities, discrimination and violation of human rights, and violence inside and outside of the home.” Therefore, the UN must first address the issues that have been caused by these violations by talking to women and girls, educating them about sexual and reproductive health care, and making sure that they know what could happen when they have sex.

Finally! There is some kind of proposed solution, or at least an idea of how to go about making life more equal for someone. Jamaica has pinpointed a specific population that is three times more likely to be infected with HIV/AIDS and that demographic is young women between 10 and 19. Further, they discovered that these girls are becoming infected because they are having sex with older men. Knowing these key facts have helped organizations come to conclusions about how to go about saving lives and slowing the spread of the infection. The UN recognizes that educating these women, giving them power over their own lives, and letting them know what they can do will help decrease the gender inequality as well as boost the fight against HIV/AIDS.

http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20101121/focus/focus6.html