Unit TWO
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Teachers Notes Recognising the Gender Dimensions of HIV Aim:
Objectives:
by the end of this resource students will have a heightened awareness of the Human Rights dimensions of HIV
Í Appreciate factors that make women and men vulnerable to HIV Í Understand dilemmas faced by young women and young men in relation
Outcome:
Í Consider how men and women are affected in different ways by the
Students will be able to explain factors that make women and men vulnerable to HIV
to HIV and offer advice on how to tackle difficult situations related to HIV HIV epidemic
Methodology: Pair reading, pair questioning.
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women In tHe HIV epIDemIc
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Men:Women Globally 51%:49%
Men:Women in Sub Saharan Africa 41%:59%
Men 51%
Men 41%
Women 49%
Women 59%
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Young Men; Young Women globally 38%: 72%
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ActIVIty How can we explain the gender difference in these statistics for Southern Africa?
We know the three main routes of transmission for HIV are through sex, injecting drugs and transmission from mother to child. But ‌. What makes women vulnerable to HIV? What makes men vulnerable to HIV?
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ActIVIty In groups of 3 List the factors that make women and men vulnerable to HIV infection
Men
Women
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cIRcUlAte HAnD oUt AnD compARe yoUR AnsweRs
Note the differences
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Slide 6 See handout:
Invite students to work in work in pairs. There are 5 letters to Auntie Stella in the Handout. Ask each pair to work on a different letter.
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ntie Stel
Dear Au
Activity Work in pairs and read the letters.
Is my husband
Dear Aunti
HIV? going to give me
Letter D
now love and six madly in But We were d, Alan. someone d was 22. only my husban seeing husban life, he was went and my else in my g but I was sure Well, he I was 19 anyone behavior. ago when workin sex with about his he was d two years I never had He said to ask him I got marriebeautiful baby. home late. the courage a got coming we have started I finally him. ago he of HIV so of not trusting Dear Auntie months Stella d me really scared else. I am crazy and accuse n just tely I am a 19 year-old a woma comple a visiting had been ed he Malawi, wanting girl in out he had last Alan admitt her because to do O Levels this with Then I foundaway and at year. Both break up my parents two streetsHe said he would passed away some time me. girlfriend. ago and I stay really loves him until with my grandmot he only sex with he her. My n’t have uncle used He says to send money I said I would he refused. for my school But when HIV testing, fees but last know. for year he lost want to he went his job and doesn’t now. I tely no one month absolu a else can help nome. on for nearly I really want . He says I do, to complete can the kitchen been going school and sleep in what else This has do my exams getting make him d like this. But of d so I can get a mostly job, but I a husban I am terrifieshouldn’t have cannot find him but sI one treats the money – perhap I still love for the fees. The Auntie? Please help exams him. are really expensive HIV from young! . so married
Dear Auntie
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Stella
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money?
Letter A
Do you think its okay for me to have can’t think of any other sex way to complete for money because place there I are of this work. many men who will pay my education? In this My friend who for sex, men refuse I am afraid Letter does it told me that but to pay enough s the E and one man also beatsometime her up. Please, Auntie, help me to Similo solve this problem.
my friends say?
I know er. m is this: Stella My proble enjoy love togeth school. year at so we can nds but I am very in third girlfriend girlfrie r-old boy keep telling like a proper about their My friends I am a 16-yea but I would they speak at them. many girls boast when I can’t even look ch girls. to approa All my friends Sometimes it easier girls. I want a I will find lonely. shy with alcohol out and can I do? I feel left me if I drink Dear Auntie l, so what nds and alcoho Stella have girlfrie want to drink really All my friends have I’m woman but I don’t I willanever of 21 girlfriend, so old that ill for some time years and I am six months getting and passed parents. that I am away recently. pregnant. My husband was I have now I am afraid moved back nd. to my a girlfrie When I registered testing programm at the maternity clinic the nurse told e and I agreed Paul and the nurse me about an to be tested. said I was HIV I got the result HIV positive, was really the same day upset but especially even though I have not her HIV. because of been sick. the baby. I I don’t want to give The nurse said they can give me a drug She also said something called about not breastfee Nevirapine to help But I was crying the and I didn’t baby. really understan ding my baby for a long time. d. So, Auntie, what can I do to help And since I my baby? have HIV, is it safe to breastfee Will she be born already sick? d the baby? Chipo
Dear Auntie
Will my baby have HIV?
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Is it better not to know?
Dear Auntie
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Stella
I’m 24 years old years. My wife with a son aged three died two years very sick and ago. She got some people died from AIDS suspected she although she tested. My was never family say I should test but I’m fit and for HIV strong and in a relationsh I feel fine. I’m ip not My main purposeso I’m not a risk to anyone. in life now good father is to be a to my son. I want him up to me. to look If I tested HIV positive I don’t would cope. know how What would I happen my What would son? he think? Maybe to know? it’s better not Tendai
Letter C
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FeeDbAck some of your answers
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ď ł What did Auntie stella
SAy?
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Case Study mother to Child transmission Í Hand out 2, Pair reading
What has been the impact of HIV on Tigist’s life?
What has been the impact of HIV on Tesfay’s life?
What should be done to support women living with HIV?
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Í Write to your local urban/county council to encourage to them organise a community
Call to action: Through the last two units you have looked at the Human Rights issues that surround the HIV pandemic, stigma, discrimination, criminalisation and gender issues and have found yourself asking What can you do? Here are some suggestions from Trócaire. Í Organise a presentation for you school for World AIDS Day on 1 December to show solidarity with people around the world living with HIV?
cAll to ActIon:
Through the last two units you have looked at the Human rights issues that surround the HIV pandemic, stigma, discrimination, criminalisation and gender issues and have found yourself asking wHat Can you do? Here are some suggestions from trócaire.
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Organise a presentation for your school for World AIDS Day on 1 December to show solidarity with people around the world living with HIV. Write to your local urban/county council to encourage to them organise a community event to mark Irish AIDS day on the 15th June. display the HIV free campaign in your local library see http://www.flickr. com/photos/trocaire/6424117851/
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in/photostream. Contact Trócaire if you would like to do this and posters can be made available.
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Read “mind the gap”, Trócaire’s paper on women’s vulnerability to HIV www.trocaire.org/HIV Become a part of or start a global solidarity group in your school and brain storm your own ideas.
event to mark Irish AIDS day on the 15th June.
Í Display the HIV Free campaign in your local library see www.flick.com/trocaire/ Í Í
hivfree. Contact Trócaire re same Read “Mind the Gap”, Trócaire’s paper on women’s vulnerability to HIV www.trocaire.org/HIV Become a part of or start a global solidarity group in your school and brain storm your own ideas.