GENDER and HIV/AIDS in the ASIA and PACIFIC REGION
Author: Womens UN Report Network
Date: January 29, 2006
Attachments: Gender-AIDS in the Asia-Pacific Region.pdf
ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL
COMMISSION FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC
Gender and
Development Discussion paper
Series No. 18
GENDER and
HIV/AIDS in the ASIA and PACIFIC REGION
December
2005
This manuscript has
been issued by the Emerging Social Issues Division of UNESCAP. It is part of a
series of publications previously known as the Women in Development Discussion
Paper Series. It was not be reproduced or reprinted without the expressed
permission of the United Nations. This discussion paper has been issued without
formal editing.
CONTENTS
Page
I.
Introduction
3
II.
Trends in the Asia-Pacific Region
3
A.
Greater Mekong Sub-region 5
B.
Pacific Islands 7
III.
Factors fueling the HIV/AIDS
pandemic
10
A.
Poverty 11
B.
Gender discrimination 12
C.
Violence against Women 14
D.
Substance abuse 16
E.
Movement of People 16
IV. Effective approaches and lessons-learned
18
A.
Good practices — examples from the
Pacific Islands 18
B.
Treating HIV/AIDS as a development
issue
19
C.
Commercial sex workers 20
V. Recommendations
21
VI. Concluding remarks
22
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