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10-10-10 as a tool to address inequalities for ending AIDS in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

Less than 10% of women and girls experience physical or sexual violence from an intimate partner by 2025.
Less than 10% of key populations (i.e., gay men and other men who have sex with men, sex workers, transgender people and people who inject drugs) experience physical or sexual violence by 2025.
Less than 10% of people living with HIV experience physical or sexual violence by 2025. γ Less than 10% of people support inequitable gender norms by 2025.
Greater than 90% of HIV services are gender responsive by 2025.

Less than 10% of women, girls, people living with HIV and key populations experience gender inequality and violence:

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Data for EECA

New infections from 2010 to 2019:

Middle East and North Africa: by 22%

Latin America: by 21%

EECA: by 72%

New HIV infections among women, 2018, by age
	ECA	Moldova	Ukraine	Kyrgyzstan	Tajikistan	Kazakhstan
Women 15+	32%	36%	31%	29%	24%	34%
AGYW (15-24)	48%	52%	36%	47%	39%	52%
AG (15-19)	61%	65%	42%	58%	53%	65%

AIDS deaths among women, 2018, by age
	ECA	Moldova	Ukraine	Kyrgyzstan	Tajikistan	Kazakhstan
Women 15+	25%	27%	17%	13%	6%	21%
AGYW (15-24)	50%	75%	38%	50%	33%	50%
AG (15-19)	59%	48%	50%	51%	43%	66%

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EECA Regional Context

Women and girls:

Have less information about HIV
Face barriers to the negotiation of safer sex
Have fewer resources to take preventive measures
Face the implications of sexual violence
Poverty forces women to focus more on immediate needs
Women widowed by AIDS or living with HIV may face property disputes or custody over children.
Women generally assume a disproportionate burden of care for others who are living with HIV
Deep seated social norms and stereotypes make women inferior to men

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Impact of COVID 19 on women and girls

In ECA, women are more likely than men to have lost their jobs or businesses

Increased women’s unpaid care and domestic workload.

Women’s paid working hours had declined

Some women find it difficult to cover basic living expenses such as food, hygiene products, rent and utilities.

Women are far more likely than men to be working from home, further increasing their already disproportionate load of care and domestic work.

Documented increases in domestic violence

Difficulties in accessing family planning services

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Opportunities

Empower women as ‘agents of change’ and advance their leadership, particularly women most directly impacted by the epidemic.
Eliminate Violence against Women
Eliminate barriers and constraints to women’s access to prevention, treatment and care services
Ensure gender-responsive actions, monitoring frameworks and adequate and appropriate financing for women’s needs and priorities in the AIDS response.
SDG Localization and LNOB
Building statistical capacities, including collection, analysis and use of sex- and age-disaggregated data
Influence the Global Fund’s funding in EECA

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