2008

Women’s & Girls’ HIV Strategies in Lower and Upper Income Countries Receive Very Poor Grades  ( [1] EN / [2] FR / [3] SP )
Women and girls from Canada, Nicaragua and Zimbabwe, including activists, researchers, AIDS organizations and health care providers, sent a strong message to their governments today, stating that strategies and approaches to HIV and AIDS risk lives. The report cards issued by the activist movement from input gathered across each country gave each government very poor grades in protecting women and girls from, and with, HIV infection…

Report Card Backgrounder: CANADA, August 2008 ( [4] EN / [5] SP )
Women in Canada are increasingly becoming infected with HIV. The proportion of females has risen steadily over time, from 11.3% in the years between 1985 and 1996 to 27.8% of adult positive HIV test reports in 2006…

Report Card: CANADA, August 2008 ( [6] EN / [7] SP )
OVERALL: We demand adequate, appropriate and sustained resources for improved programming and policies…

National Report Cards Measuring Responses to Women’s, Young Women’s and Girls’ HIV/AIDS Issues ( [8] EN / [9] SP )
Press Conference releasing the results of Canada’s, Zimbabwe’s and Nicaragua’s national report cards on women’s and girls’ HIV/AIDS issues

Report Card Backgrounder: NICARAGUA, August 2008 ( [10] EN / [11] SP )
Nicaragua is a country rich in culture, learning, collective action and natural resources. It has 5.5 million inhabitants, and just over half are women. On a daily basis, 80% of Nicaraguans face conditions of poverty, with less than $2.00 U.S. to live on per day. Approximately, 50% of this group consists of women and men under the age of 19. Nicaragua has a large adolescent population and 67% of the country is under the age of 30. 42% of the adolescent population does not attend school and unemployment affects 41% of young people…

Report Card: NICARAGUA, August 2008 ( [12] EN / [13] SP )
Legal, Ethical and Human Rights Issues - Favourable judicial and legal framework (Statute 238) for the prevention of the epidemic, accompaniment of people living with the virus, and allocation of specific State and Civil Society responsibilities…

Zimbabwe Blueprint Coalition Report, July 2008 ( [14] EN )
The research employed a number of data collection methods which included literature review that highlighted existing initiatives and related gaps…

Report Card: ZIMBABWE, August 2008 ( [15] EN / [16] SP )
OVERALL: We demand adequate, appropriate and sustained resources for improved programming and policies…

2006 

On December 1st, 2005, World AIDS Day, Blueprint released a manifesto with clear and strong demands for stakeholders. Blueprint also created a report card model based on measurable outcomes to grade multi-stakeholder responses to women and HIV/AIDS. The report cards will be updated regularly to enable countries to determine how they are performing on each demand. Advocacy efforts will be targeted towards areas where countries’ grades are poor.

Blueprint’s Manifesto and corresponding tools can be used in local contexts, in Canada, and by countries worldwide. Increased coordination will strengthen advocacy efforts, improving the response by all stakeholders involved in the prevention, care, treatment and support of women affected and infected by HIV/AIDS.

Manifesto 2006 ( [17] EN / [18] FR / [19] SP )

This Blueprint is a comprehensive strategy to stop the HIV/AIDS epidemic among women and girls (including transgendered women) globally that requires adequately funded, sustained and ongoing response from all stakeholders…[20] more

Manifesto Backgrounder ([21] EN  / [22] FR / [23] SP )

Blueprint Report Card ( [24] EN  /  [25] FR  )