World AIDS day emphasizes women
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In Indiana, 21 percent of the people with HIV - the virus that leads to AIDS - are women, while 12 percent of those with AIDS are female.
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The day of December 1 is celebrated all over the world as the World AIDS Day. The holiday was marked for the first time in 1988. Organizers have chosen the motto &quot;Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS&quot; as the theme for this year&#39;s campaign.
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The Global Coalition for Women and AIDS and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS marked World Human Rights Day on Friday with campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV.
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Women in India, home to the world's second largest HIV population after South Africa, are becoming more vulnerable to AIDS, leading to a growing "feminisation" of the epidemic, a U.N. expert said on Friday.
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The Aids pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, United Nations agencies said yesterday.
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Canada will provide about $105 million in new funding for HIV/AIDS programs directed at women around the world, International Cooperation Minister Aileen Carroll announced on Wednesday to coincide with World AIDS Day, the CP/Canada.
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VATICAN CITY, NOV. 24, 2004 .- The Pontifical Council for Health Care Workers has released this statement for World AIDS Day.
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Women make up nearly half of infected adults worldwide, the United Nations said in issuing its annual report on AIDS.
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Any effort to battle the AIDS epidemic must focus on changing the fate of women by educating them, helping them own property and giving
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December 1 marks World AIDS day, an international effort to spread awareness about the rapidly spreading HIV and AIDS epidemic and to promote preventive measures.
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The Gambia today joins the rest of the world to mark World Aids Day, with President Jammeh calling on all leaders to use spiritual teachings and religious scriptures to emphasize morality in society as well as compassion, healing and support for People
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HIV/Aids is fast acquiring a feminine face in African countries like Kenya, as biological vulnerability, poverty and sexual violence join to raise infection rates for young women and girls, a report from UNAids has warned.
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World AIDS Day is an annual campaign to raise awareness of HIV AIDS worldwide and stimulate appropriate remedial action. It was first observed on December 01, 1988 following a recommendation by a summit of world health ministers.
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BEIJING: The world marked Aids Day yesterday, promising to eradicate ignorance and prejudice about a disease that was at first dismissed by many as a Western evil confined to drug users, homosexuals and prostitutes.
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Ceres P. Doyo. IT&#39;S six days before World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec. 1. This year&#39;s theme is &quot;Women and AIDS.&quot; For the past two successive years (2002 and 2003) the theme was &quot;Stigma and Discrimination
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Women make up nearly half of the 37.2  million adults living with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa the  proportion rises to almost 60 percent, according to a UN report  released on Tuesday.
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(OTTUMWA) Many around the world and in Ottumwa are holding special ceremonies for &quot;World AIDS Day,&quot; a special global event dedicated to remembering victims of AIDS, learning more about the devastating effects of the disease and reaffirming the commitment