This course provides learning opportunities to promote sexual and reproductive health and rights and reverse current trends in HIV & AIDS. It enables learners to understand: basic concepts and theories about gender and development; the global, regional and national governance framework to promote gender equality, sexual and reproductive health and rights; strategies to address HIV & AIDS; and how to conduct gender analysis and mainstream gender in HIV & AIDS policies and programmes in public, private sector, community and international development institutions. Students will also be exposed to: development problems related to sexual and reproductive health and HIV & AIDS from a gender perspective; relevant research, policies, laws and programmes being used to address these problems, (e.g. unplanned pregnancies, gender-based violence, HIV & AIDS); policy and programme gaps that need to be addressed to support commitments to the promotion of gender-sensitive, rights-based approaches to HIV & AIDS as well as sexual and reproductive health.
