What is measured?

This element reflects country reported progress in ensuring that men and women have equal access to prevention, treatment, care and support, protection of their rights and protection against discrimination.

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Results

- 70% of countries reported data on this element. Reporting was much better from countries with generalized and hyperendemic epidemics. 64% reported having identified women as a vulnerable group that need particular policy interventions in the response to AIDS. In the two regions of North Africa and the Middle East and Western and Central Europe, however, this figure was only 22% and 31% respectively.

- 47% reported that their laws provide special protection to women in the context of AIDS, and only 37% had an earmarked budget for such policies and interventions. Some 57% of countries with generalized epidemics had made such a budget provision, but only 3% of countries in Western and Central Europe had done so.

- 58% reported that women have some support in policy and law as sexually active adults in their own right. This figure was as high as 73% in countries with generalized epidemics, but dropped to 22% in countries in North Africa and the Middle East.

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