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In Indonesia, women are twice as likely to experience discrimination as men when accessing HIV-related services. Read about how one woman is fighting stigma as she battles Indonesias HIV epidemic.

  • Combating Gender-based Violence: Tools and Resources
  • Livelihoods and HIV Risk for Adolescent Girls: Design of a Programming Framework
  • Mobilizing Religious Leaders and Communities to Address GBV and HIV (PPT Presentation)
  • USAID Interagency Gender Working Group
  • USAID-Family Planning, Poverty, and Health Equity
  • POLICY Project Gender-based Violence Advocacy Toolkit
  • POLICY Project Stigma and Discrimination Resources
  • POLICY Project Human Rights Matrix

Crosscutting Issues

In seeking to promote an enabling environment for health, the USAID | Health Policy Initiative is mandated to devise appropriate policies and practices to address barriers to health service scale-up, access, quality, and use posed by three crosscutting issues: poverty, gender inequality, and lack of human rights. The initiative works with government, civil society, and private sector entities to design and implement policy responses that will:

  • Ensure equitable access for the poor and reach those most in need with services;
     
  • Address gender inequalities to enable women and girls and men and boys to obtain and use the information and services they need for better health; and
     
  • Protect human rights-especially as they pertain to the rights of women and the poor as well as reduction of HIV-related stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV and others affected by the epidemic.

Opening of GBV and HIV workshop
East Africa Regional Manager Angeline Siparo, speaks during the opening of a regional African workshop for religious leaders on gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. Credt: Britt Herstad, USAID | Health Policy Initiative TO1