Description

Learning method: Self-paced

Date: Available online year-round

Duration: Approximately 3 hours

Language: English

Cost: Free

This learning course will provide participants with the tools to strengthen HIV programming by increasing gender equality and empowering women.
After taking the course, the participants will:
  • Understand why gender equality and women’s empowerment are essential for successful HIV programming.
  • Learn how attention to gender equality can strengthen the HIV response.
  • Identify entry points for strengthening gender in HIV programming for better HIV outcomes.
The course is divided into the following modules:
  1. Why do gender equality and women’s empowerment matter for the HIV response?
  2. Interventions to address the gender dimensions of HIV at the individual level
  3. Interventions to address the gender dimensions of HIV at the community level
  4. Interventions to address the gender dimensions of HIV at the institutional level
  5. Interventions to address the gender dimensions of HIV at the level of policies and laws
  6. What can I do?
This course is open to anyone around the world.
  •  Primary audience: Leaders and staff in governments and civil society organizations (CSO) responsible for HIV policies and programmes, such as ministries of health, national HIV programmes, and national AIDS coordinating bodies.
  • Secondary audience: Staff in ministries of gender/women’s Issues, women’s organizations, and other organizations working with or representing people living with HIV so they have the same shared understanding of gender dimensions of HIV as their colleagues working in the HIV and health sectors.