Women are disadvantaged by discrimination rooted in sociocultural factors and women and girls face increased vulnerability to HIV/AIDS. women constitute over half of the population of people living with HIV. Some of the sociocultural factors that prevent women and girls to benefit from quality health services and attaining the best possible level of health include:
• unequal power relationships between men and women.
• social norms that decrease education and paid employment opportunities.
• an exclusive focus on women’s reproductive roles; and
• potential or actual experience of physical, sexual and emotional violence.
While poverty is an important barrier to positive health outcomes for both men and women, poverty tends to yield a higher burden on women and girls’ health

Men are often left out in many programs and yet men contribute to the disease burden. Generally, men have low health seeking behaviors and yet data points out to them being affected by many of the diseases like HIV/AIDS, Cancer, Diabetes and TB. Men are also experiencing gender-based violence although they are known to be the
perpetrators.