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How we work

The HIV and AIDS epidemic impacts across all of Oxfam’s work and can no longer be treated solely as a health issue.

Human rights, gender equality, access to information, sexual and reproductive health rights are all essential in the battle against the virus. Oxfam and its partners around the world are working to address the major obstacles of discrimination, stigma, the unequal position of women and the lack of public awareness to prevent the further spread of the disease and to protect people living with HIV and AIDS.

A public health worker makes a home visit at a camp in Uganda using a bike provided by Oxfam. The health worker collects data on HIV, malaria and other health problems. Credit: Geoff Sayer/Oxfam

HIV and AIDS programmes

Oxfam supports specific HIV and AIDS programmes which respond to the epidemic in a direct way. We work with partners and AIDS-affected communities on:

• prevention and education
• fighting stigma and discrimination
• improving access to treatment and care

Investing in learning

Oxfam has been keen to document and maximise learning from our global programmes, focussing on gathering and sharing learning and experiences across the organisation and with our partners world-wide.