Points for Action

Gender Awareness

• Promote understanding of the ways in which gender stereotypes and expectations affect women and men, and support work to enhance gender equality and equity.

• Challenge harmful and divisive concepts of masculinity and other gender stereotypes.

• Encourage discussion about the ways in which boys are brought up and men are expected to behave.

Sexual Communication and Negotiations

• Encourage men to talk about sex, drug use and AIDS, with each other and with their partners.

• Enhance women's capacity to determine when, where and whether sex takes place.
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• Enhance men's access to appropriate sources of information, counselling and support.

• Promote greater understanding and acceptance of men who have sex with men.

Violence and Sexual Violence

• Support government and non-government actions to reduce male violence and sexual violence.

Support and Care

• Help men in their role as fathers and providers of care and support, both within the family and in the community.