Marginalized Knowledge: An Agenda for Indigenous Knowledge Development and Integration with Other Forms of Knowledge

Key words:

Gender, HIV/AIDS, South Africa, prevention strategies

Introduction:

The Department of Health finalised a new Strategic Plan on the fight against HIV/AIDS and STIs early 2007. This plan is supposed to give a framework and guidelines on the fight against HIV/AIDS in South Africa until 2011. This plan has been commended by many and criticised by few. In this article, I will construct the term ‘gender’ and describe why it should be addressed in policies and programmes. I will then broadly discuss the history of AIDS prevention strategies in South Africa and then determine of the new strategy address gender.