Beijing Platform for Action. Chapter IV. C. Women and Health – Paragraph 98
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): The Good Men Project
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2018/10/26
98. HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, the transmission of which is sometimes a consequence of sexual violence, are having a devastating effect on women’s health, particularly the health of adolescent girls and young women. They often do not have the power to insist on safe and responsible sex practices and have little access to information and services for prevention and treatment. Women, who represent half of all adults newly infected with HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, have emphasized that social vulnerability and the unequal power relationships between women and men are obstacles to safe sex, in their efforts to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases. The consequences of HIV/AIDS reach beyond women’s health to their role as mothers and caregivers and their contribution to the economic support of their families. The social, developmental and health consequences of HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases need to be seen from a gender perspective.
Beijing Declaration (1995)
Now, the spread of sexually transmitted diseases is a serious problem, especially with deliberate misinformation and disinformation made about the sources of sexually transmitted diseases. The most tragic examples, excluding derivative negative consequences in other actual examples, comes from direct exposure to an HIV/AIDS due to rape, say so-called ‘corrective’ rape of a lesbian woman.This is the continual story of history, and its further acknowledgement and reduction with the societal and legal protections against it. However, we remain over a century from equality by some estimates, but we could move more rapidly as the future remains uncertain.The health and wellbeing of girls and young women remain highly important. Not only as fundamental rights but also on grounds of compassion, the issues for safe and responsible sex practices are: most people will engage in safe and responsible sexual activity, as per the data, with the proper information – to make informed choices – and tools – to engage proactively with the information to enact those informed sexual choices.Women are a non-trivial proportion of the new HIV/AIDS cases. They will be more stigmatized than the men as well. There is an ongoing power dynamic and, more accurately, imbalance. It is having a sensibility to perceive the obvious power imbalances in social, familial, and legal contexts.With such an awareness, while attenuated by knowledge of Confirmation Bias, the formulation of appropriate measures to solve the inequalities can be done, in concrete terms, for further reduction in the level of restrictions against women compared to men.The restrictions in information and health-care relevant to sexuality. Sometimes, this has to be done covertly in literature, as with Margaret Atwood, who should be one of the most effective moral actors in the world today based on not only the literary excellence.The ability to control the spread of sexually transmitted diseases is important. This is also to consider in the relevant health consequences to mothers who may be left in very precarious circumstances in the ability to help the family economically and otherwise, even as a single parent.So it goes.–
- The Universal Declaration of Human Rights in the Preamble, Article 16, and Article 25(2).Convention Against Discrimination in Education (1960) in Article 1.The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966) in Article 3, Article 7, and Article 13.International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966).Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (1979).Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (1984).The Declaration on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (1993).Beijing Declaration(1995).United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 (2000).Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children (2000).The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa or the “Maputo Protocol” (2003).Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence or the Istanbul Convention (2011) Article 38 and Article 39.
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