International Day of the Girl Child, October 11th

On October 11, UNAIDS calls upon governments to commit to ending gender inequalities in education, eliminating violence against women and girls, and ensuring the availability of age-appropriate sexual and reproductive health services. These are all actions that contribute to strengthening the response to HIV/AIDS and support the recently endorsed Sustainable Development Goals.

Read UNAIDS’s excellent statement which touches on all the issues that GRAN Working Groups are addressing:

http://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/pressreleaseandstatementa...

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