Final Report.CDR - National Institute of health and family welfare

She explained some of the factors which make women more vulnerable to
HIV/AIDS.
Thereafter she discussed national response to HIV/AIDs in India focusing
on following aspects:
•Rights based, participatory and Gender sensitive processes followed
for the formulation of the NACP III and PIP at the National level.
•Women's concerns and gender issues incorporated in a significant
manner in the NACP III
•Setting up of the National AIDS Council for mainstreaming HIV/AIDS
into 31 Ministries
•Draft HIV/AIDS bill ready to be put in the Parliament
•The Domestic Violence Bill (DVB) was passed by Parliament in
August 2005
•Govt. programme on provision of free ART more than 120,000 (2008)
Topic: Women and AIDS: Role of Gender and Human Rights and
issues
Prof. Suneela Garg
Prof. Suneela Garg, highlighted on the agenda of Cairo International
conference on Population and Development as one of the most important
and progressive international agenda to secure reproductive health rights
and to promote gender equity. She shared facts and statistics related to
issues of violence and women in our country. As per National Commission
for Women, she quoted that:
•1 out of 5 married woman accepted that they faced domestic violence.
•I out of 9 surveyed married women accepted that they have been
beaten in past 12 months.
•21% of women told that they have been facing violence since the
early age of 15.
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