75% of countries fail to report data on services for women and girls

The Scorecard on Women shows that we know far too little about what many countries are or are not doing to address women and girls’ vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. We know especially little about girls, a population for which virtually no data are being collected or reported to the UN.

The most troubling of the Scorecard on Women’s findings is that 75% of nations failed to report basic information to the United Nations about their domestic responses to the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on women. The Scorecard also found that countries with higher AIDS burdens are doing a far better job overall at reporting how their AIDS responses address the needs of women than are countries less severely impacted by the epidemic.

The map shows country reporting on UNGASS data specific to women.

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