Expressing its concern that the HIV and AIDS pandemic reinforces gender inequalities, that women and girls are disproportionately affected by the pandemic, that they are more easily infected, especially at an earlier age than men and boys, that they bear the disproportionate burden of caring for and supporting people living with and affected by HIV and AIDS and that they become more vulnerable to poverty as a result of the pandemic,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Consensus
Topic(s)
Health
Poverty
Person(s) affected
Boys
Children
Girls
Men
Women
Year
2010
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
CSW resolution, Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS (2010), PP 14.