CHALLENGES FACING IMPLEMENTATION OF GENDER EQUALITY AND HOW CAN WE ACHIEVE BETTER HIV OUTCOMES

Gender equality refers to equal treatment of women and man in laws and policies and equal access to resources and services within families, communities and society.

Implementation of gender equality is affected with many challenges. Some of them are gender inequality, impunity, weak

coordination and monitoring mechanisms at national level and inadequate human, technical and financial investments. These challenges are mostly faced by women

and girls. Overcoming these challenges may lead to better HIV outcomes.

To begin with, Gender inequality. Refers to equal and unfair treatment between males and females. This discrimination and barrier prevents women and girls from

exercising their rights accessing services and other opportunities, greatly increase their risk of experiencing violence. socially accepted gender norms and values, for

example in many societies girls are raised to be submissive and defer to male authority, while boys are taught to be controlling, dominant and aggressive, these norms

increase violence. The evident itvsi spread in various sectors of government and private. This challenge rise has women and girls lies in unraveling how harmful gender

attitude and roles are deeply ingrained across the fabric of societies and fostering values of mutual respect and equality. This challenge can be overcome through

training and deploying many female social workers. This will help fellow female members to interact freely without hiding the violence’s which they counter and

teaching them importance of being independent. Empowering girls and women, boys and men equal access to education employment and social services. This will

allow girls, women and boys to make independent decision on either sexual or reproductive and increasing access to social services will able them to get useful

information about family planning and hence improving outcomes of HIV has many will know effects of unprotected sex. Increasing campaigns against gender

violences may help to overcome this challenge as more people will get to know the effects of gender violence.

Second challenge is impunity. This refers to exemption from punishment. The lack of government accountability in comprehensive addressing violence against women

and girls is a significant obstacle to the ending of problem, these comes as lack of political will, inadequate legal protection, enforcement poor implementation of nation

commitment leads to pervasive impunity. This is particularly evident in country and communities with weak justice systems and where customary law practises and

widely used informal justice’s mechanisms may contradict international human rights standard. This hinder the women and girls access to formal justice by some

obstacles such as gender bias, discrimination attitude, social stigma and financial constraints. This can be end by adequate prosecution and punishment and equal

protection for woman under laws and equal access to justice.

Weak coordination and monitoring mechanisms at national level is another challenge.Addressing violence against women and girls requires muiltisectoral approach,

involving minimum of the health, education,social legal and security sectors ,unlike stand alone sectors , the government fails to takebof charge of coordination for

ending gender bias and violence women and girls faces .The is under resource and lack institutional and political influence within govrnment sectors wide approach and

decentralization may pose additional challenges to coordination and monitoring the implementation of policies and programme where addressing violence against

women may not been seen as priority.

Lastly. Inadequate human, technical and financial investments. Skill and knowledge on preventing and responding to this case of gender violence against women and

girls, including in evidence based programming is often limited particularly in resource scarce settings. Turnover of experienced staff increase the challenge and this
affect sectors inorder for government to achieve it. Many countries have adopted law and policies there are rarely accompanied by adequate budget allocating, nor the

requisite staffing, infrastructural improvement may be need at national and subnational level to implement them and small is allocated on issues concerning gender.

Challenges affecting implementation of gender has greatly affected the lives of girls and women. main challenge is government failing to increase more effort on such

issues. Dealing with these issues may reduce risk of HIV and hence improving outcomes has more people will respect another without considering his or her status.The

above essay has explain some of challenges affecting implementation of gender equality and improving them will lead to better desired outcomes.

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