Despite increased understanding of the link between gender and HIV and, more recently, the value of using multiple gender strategies to mitigate women's and men's vulnerability, little is known about how HIV programs are applying these insights to improve programs and services. To expand this knowledge base, PEPFAR's Gender Technical Working Group commissioned AIDSTAR-One14 to compile a compendium of HIV prevention, treatment, and care and support programs in sub-Saharan Africa that are integrating multiple gender strategies into their work. As an AIDSTAR-One partner organization, ICRW provided technical oversight on this compendium project.
The specific objectives of the compendium are to: (1) identify current, promising programs in sub-Saharan Africa countries where PEPFAR resources are concentrated15 that address at least two PEPFAR gender strategies as they intersect with HIV prevention, treatment, and care and support programs; (2) describe the identified programs in terms of their goals, beneficiaries, operations, evidence of effectiveness, gender outcomes, community and government involvement, findings and lessons, implementation challenges, and recommendations ; (3) use this information to synthesize trends and findings across programs, including how gender strategies are used together, common lessons learned by implementers, and systematic weaknesses or gaps that tend to occur across programs; and (4) pProvide recommendations for maximizing the impact of combining gender strategies within HIV programs based on the experiences of the programs examined.
As the first of its kind, the compendium was conceived as an initial step in exploring the feasibility and usefulness of conducting this type of programmatic review. If the compendium proves useful, it could later be expanded to include other regions of the world. (Author abstract, modified)
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