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Gender equality urged in AIDS policy

    JOHANNESBURG

    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.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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