What is measured?

This element captures the degree to which countries report to have mainstreamed the gender dimension to AIDS in their HIV and development planning and are implementing interventions to improve gender equity.

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Results

- More than 25% of all countries failed to report any data on this element, including 13% of high-burden countries.

- Stopping violence against women is a focus of prevention campaigns in over 75% of countries with generalized epidemics. But more that 80% of countries in North Africa, the Middle East, and Western and Central Europe did not provide any information on this issue.

- Some 75% of countries with generalized epidemics reported that they target men in campaigns to raise awareness of the gender dimension to AIDS. However, only 45% of countries in Latin America, and under 20% of countries in Western and Central Europe, do so.

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