Gender AIDS Forum (GAF), a South African lobby group, plans to pressure national and provincial health officials to focus on the sexual rights of women.
GAF says not enough emphasis has been placed on gender inequalities in the country's HIV/AIDS policy.
"Gender-based power imbalances are not reflected in the national AIDS plan. South Africa is missing a debate about what gender means for the fight against HIV/AIDS," GAF team leader Dawn Cavanagh told the UN news service, PlusNews.
The Forum has drafted a document containing recommendations on legal guidelines for women's sexual rights and microbicides for the government's new Health Plan, which will be launched in April 2005.
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