Raising the Visibility of Older Women Carers
Jo Maher
Usa Khiewrord
Janet Duffield
Zeca Chicusse
Goddy Paul
Quyen Tran
Meredith Wyse
Mathew Cherian
Fiona Clark.
George Truckenbrod
Description:
The overall aim of the project is to advocate for national and international resources to be targeted at older women caregivers in the participating countries through:
• Promoting improved data collection and include indicators on older people in the assessments of national HIV/AIDS bodies and programme implementing agencies
• Establishing an international network on caregiving able to lobby at national level for the inclusion of older peoples’ issues in HIV/AIDS policies and programmes.
This project will raise the visibility of older women carers and promote the rights of caregivers through advocacy with governments, institutions and civil society. The activities build on evidence gathered from previous work funded by UNAIDS.
Improved household information will become available at national and international levels. This will accompany the creation of an international network of organisations which will increase awareness and recognition the roles of older women caregivers, and be able to support each other’s programme and advocacy work. Additionally research will take place in four countries to strengthen the evidence base for national level advocacy.
HAI will conduct advocacy in Africa (Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania and at AU level) where the burden of care is most acutely felt. In addition and in light of the nascent pandemic in Asia, advocacy and some research will be carried out in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and India. Advocacy and research will also happen in the Latin America region, focusing on Brazil, where the epidemic is in a very different stage of development yet older women are still marginalised from HIV responses.
• Promoting improved data collection and include indicators on older people in the assessments of national HIV/AIDS bodies and programme implementing agencies
• Establishing an international network on caregiving able to lobby at national level for the inclusion of older peoples’ issues in HIV/AIDS policies and programmes.
This project will raise the visibility of older women carers and promote the rights of caregivers through advocacy with governments, institutions and civil society. The activities build on evidence gathered from previous work funded by UNAIDS.
Improved household information will become available at national and international levels. This will accompany the creation of an international network of organisations which will increase awareness and recognition the roles of older women caregivers, and be able to support each other’s programme and advocacy work. Additionally research will take place in four countries to strengthen the evidence base for national level advocacy.
HAI will conduct advocacy in Africa (Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania and at AU level) where the burden of care is most acutely felt. In addition and in light of the nascent pandemic in Asia, advocacy and some research will be carried out in Cambodia, Thailand, Vietnam and India. Advocacy and research will also happen in the Latin America region, focusing on Brazil, where the epidemic is in a very different stage of development yet older women are still marginalised from HIV responses.