Prevention & Care

Plan's responses to HIV and AIDS are age-appropriate

Plan's responses to HIV and AIDS are gender-specific reducing gender inequality and improving the conditions of girls and women affected by HIV and AIDS. When families are affected by AIDS, girls are more likely than boys to be taken out of school to care for sick relatives or siblings; they often have less access to medical care and less protection against property theft by relatives after the death of their spouse. 

Plan's responses to HIV and AIDS are tailored to local context. Poverty, tradition, gender inequality and other social factors severely limit young people's ability to adopt behaviours that protect them from HIV infection. 

Plan's responses to HIV and AIDS start with the life experience of children and adolescents. Below are examples illustrating the range of programmes Plan supports in its attempt to reduce vulnerability to HIV infection: