Concerned also that the global HIV epidemic disproportionately affects women and girls and reinforces gender inequalities, that the majority of new HIV infections in young people aged 15 to 19 years occur among girls, and also concerned that women and girls bear the disproportionate burden of caring for and supporting people living with and affected by HIV, and that they become more vulnerable to poverty as a result of the epidemic,
Legal status
Negotiated soft law
Body
Commission on the Status of Women
Document type
Resolution
Means of adoption
Vote
Topic(s)
Health
Poverty
Person(s) affected
Girls
Women
Youth
Year
2014
Paragraph type
PP
Reference
CSW resolution, Women, the girl child and HIV/AIDS (2014), PP 8.