AFRO-NETS> Men, HIV and AIDS

[Dieter Neuvians MD <neuvians@mweb.co.za>]

Men, HIV and AIDS
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Report on a Regional Conference 2003
by Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa/VSO
 
Adobe PDF file (52 pp. 506 kB):
http://www.kubatana.net/docs/hivaid/vso_men_aids_2003.pdf
 
A conference on MEN, HIV & AIDS was organised in Pretoria by the 
Regional AIDS Initiative of Southern Africa (RAISA) of Voluntary 
Service Overseas (VSO) between 11-13 February 2003. Seventy-one 
participants, mostly from Southern African countries with a few 
from East and West Africa, examined how to engage men in the re-
sponse to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
 
Twenty years into the pandemic, the bulk of studies and inter-
ventions have centred on women and girls. There is greater un-
derstanding of the gender dimensions of HIV/AIDS but little 
funding and effort has gone into working with men, especially 
young men. Many interventions fail because they do not take into 
account the identity constructions of the men who interact with 
women and girls as partners, husbands, fathers, teachers and so 
forth.
 
The conference was structured around 10 parallel streams: 
*     Enlisting men as people living with HIV/AIDS; 
*     Men in prevention and advocacy; 
*     Marketing; 
*     Home based care; 
*     Man to man transmission; 
*     Male reproductive health; 
*     Boy child and construction of masculinity; 
*     Boy child and peer pressure; 
*     Men and cultural beliefs; 
*     Stigma and Violence.

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