"The aim of the conference was to bring together stakeholders from different sectors, in order to create a forum for discussing innovative solutions to emerging issues affecting caregivers in community based organisations. Objectives included focusing on the challenges of care to women and children, identifying good home-based care practices, discussing policy and legal frameworks for home-based care, raising awareness of caregivers’ needs, exploring how to engage men in home-based care, and establishing networks for lobbying and advocacy"
This report highlights the crisis in delivering equitable health care for people living with HIV & AIDS, and particularly for women and girls. It builds on VSO’s earlier policy brief, 'Gendering AIDS: women, men, empowerment, mobilisation'
