Butcher, Kate

Papua New Guinea (PNG) has a rapidly worsening HIV and AIDS epidemic. Gender-based violence is common and is, in part, fuelling the spread of HIV. We argue that the situation in PNG illustrates very clearly why ‘mainstreaming’ HIV into all aspects of development simply cannot happen without serious attention to gender inequities. We describe a […]

This article presents some examples of successful and innovative community-development work which has focused on HIV and gender relations, and gives a personal view of ways in which the danger of HIV can be used as an opportunity to address many issues which have always been there, but which, until the advent of HIV, few […]