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Title: Women at the heart of HIV “The heart of Endemic or The heart of Change”
Location:
Global
Categories: Health
Education
Human Rights
Status:
In Progress
Timeline:
March 15 10 to October 15 10
Description:
Over the past several years, the clinician and researcher perception of individuals \\\"at risk\\\" for HIV infection has begun to change to include women. And in a gender dominant community like Egypt situation we definitely can consider women one of those groups. So our project will include two groups of women :
1. Young girls (15-25)
2. Ex- injecting drug women in a rehabilitation houses (IDUs)
And to achieve our goal to bring them to HIV knowledge, we will tackle the issue through combining it with other acceptable “non- stigmatized” issue, such as “FGM” which had been reported as one of the major problems among girls in Egypt, as well as acceptable socially to be discussed among the girls in slum areas.
So our project has two main components:
1. Targeting 40 young girls (15-25) by education around HIV/AIDS as well as FGM, it will be through 2 training workshops (one workshop for secondary school girls to be as a peer educator among girls in their community, and the other will be for active girls from the NGOs in the rural area “Omraniah - Giza”).
2. Targeting 10 IDUs in such slum area by knowledge through one workshop as well as linking them to the VCT service provided by the National AIDS Program.
This project will build upon our experience and will give the chance for GYCA – Egypt team 2010 to be more powerful and feel commitment toward TIG and youth for change.
Background:
In MENA, by 2007 there were 380,000 people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA), 10,000 cases reported in Egypt. By 2007, there were 1,028 AIDS-related deaths reported in Egypt. Almost more than half of PLWHA in the region are women, however highly numbers than the announced are logically expected specially among girls, it is not only due to stigma but also due to lack of knowledge about prevention, care and services specially at the rural places. Yet, in Egypt, for example, both women and men were most likely to see limiting sex to one uninfected partner as a means of reducing the risk of transmission (58 percent and 73 percent, respectively). More than half of women were unaware that a healthy-looking person can have AIDS, with greater variability in their knowledge according to their educational as well as geographical background, for example, HIV/AIDS awareness was markedly lower among rural than urban women (85 percent and 68 percent, respectively).
To reach the young women living in a hard situation we will combine our work with awareness against circumcision. The prevalence of female circumcision in Egypt; 91 percent of all women age 15-49, However, the results also suggest that adherence to the practice is increased in some population groups. For example, exceeding 80 percent, female circumcision rates among women under age 25.
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