At the crossroads: linking strategic frameworks to address gender-based violence and HIV/ AIDS in Southern Africa
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Date
2007
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Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape
Abstract
In recent years, southern African governments
have made a number of important commitments on
international and regional levels to combat HIV/
AIDS. The subregion has also seen a number of
strategic developments such as the drafting and
implementation of the SADC HIV/AIDS Policy
Framework for 2003-2007 and the appointment by
the UN Secretary-General of a Task Force on
Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.It is now generally accepted that the
intersections between gender-based violence and
HIV/AIDS are among the most significant of the
gendered dimensions of this pandemic. It is
noteworthy that the UN Special Rapporteur on
Violence Against Women devoted her 2005
thematic report to these intersections. She
observed that while some progress is being made
separately on ending violence against women and
on stemming the spread of HIV/AIDS, national and
international efforts would be vastly more effective
if they addressed the interconnectness between the
two pandemics.
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Violence against women, HIV/AIDS, Strategic frameworks, Southern Africa, Gender-based violence
Citation
Combrinck, H. & Wakefield, L. (2007). At the crossroads: linking strategic frameworks to address gender-based violence and HIV/ AIDS in Southern Africa. Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape