UN Division for the Advancement of Women, WHO, and UNAIDS

The HIV/AIDS Pandemic and its Gender Implications

This is the report of an Expert Group Meeting on the gender implications of the HIV/AIDS Pandemic held in Windhoek, Namibia in November 2000. The report critiques the traditional portrayal of the pandemic as merely a public health problem and attempts to shed light on the various human rights and women's rights dimensions of the crisis.