Featured Work
World AIDS Day 2008
World AIDS Day is an important opportunity to take stock of the progress made in responding to HIV and AIDS and a chance to act together for an AIDS-free future. HIV is now a predominately female disease and it the spread is being accelerated by the very high level of violence against women in many countries.
Women Call for Food Sovereignty
Skyrocketing food prices hurt people all over the world. Women are not just suffering the impacts of this crisis, they are calling for new approaches to solve it. ActionAid supports women’s farmers groups in their demand for a restructuring of agriculture that puts human rights, women’s rights and the environment front and center.
The Twin Pandemics: Violence Against Women and HIV & AIDS
Women make up 61% of those infected with HIV & AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa and 64% of 15 to 24 year-olds living with HIV in all developing countries. The world is only beginning to recognize that the HIV is now a predominately female disease and that its spread is being accelerated by the very high level of violence against women in many countries. ActionAid works on making the connection between Violence Against Women and HIV & AIDS.
Building the Case for Addressing Violence Against Women and HIV & AIDS Together
ActionAid’s work with women’s organizations across the world has exposed a fatal synergy between the pandemics of Violence against Women (VAW) and HIV&AIDS. Women who are HIV-positive tend to have a higher degree of exposure to violence. And women in violent situations experience heightened vulnerability to HIV transmission.
Keeping Tabs: Making Aid Accountable and Effective for Women
Only about half of the “aid” money from donor governments actually ends up addressing development needs such as recovery from tsunamis and other disasters, the fight to end HIV & AIDS, or support to anti-poverty programs. ActionAid is piloting a monitoring system for investigating impacts and outcomes of the money that is supposed to be helping the women.
Publications
Media Gallery
Women and War, a book and exhibition by Jenny Matthews, is a visual diary. It is “the story of remarkable women – ordinary people surviving as best they can during and after conflict. Some women chose to take up arms but, for most, war is about coping with the disruption of normal life. Women are the caretakers, the sustainers, the mediators.
