ALL-PARTY
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GROUP ON AIDS
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November 2009 Health and Safety the challenges for women of HIV and Gender Violence This event was hosted jointly by the APPG on AIDS and the APPG on Population, Development and Reproductive Health. Christine McCafferty MP, Chair of the latter APPG, gave a warm opening speech. Christine’s opening speech can be downloaded here. Each speaker brought a different perspective to women, HIV and Gender violence. Professor Charlotte Watts, Sigrid Rausing Professor of Gender Violence at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, gave empirically backed insight into the links between violence against women and HIV, highlighting that these links require greater attention and more action. Belinda Tima, HIV/TB
Coordinator, Reach and former Co-Chair of the UK Board of the International
Community of Women living with HIV and AIDS addressed the need to tackle gender
based violence in Uganda. She spoke of the experience of some of her peers
growing up in the conflict zones in northern Uganda, and highlighted the ongoing
challenges. Rahila Gupta, Freelance
Writer and Activist and management committee member of Southall Black Sisters,
focussed on the situations facing women in the UK. She spoke of the need to
address harmful gender norms and welcomed the government’s announcement of its
intention to introduce domestic violence education into schools. |
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All-Party Parliamentary Group on AIDS, Office of
David Borrow MP, House of
Commons, London SW1A 0AA |