Women and HIV on global focus
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December 1 is World Aids Day. Global attention is focused on women and girls with the day&#39;s theme: &quot;Women, Girls, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)&quot;.
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The new epicenter of the global AIDS pandemic is Asia, and its new faces are Asia&#39;s young girls and women. This was highlighted by a recent United Nations report on HIV/AIDS and the theme
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A worldwide &quot;pandemic&quot; of violence against women is fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS, human rights group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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Nearly half of the 37 million HIV-positive adults ages 15 to 49 worldwide are women, and the number of HIV-positive women in all regions of the world has been increasing over the past two years, according to a report released on Tuesday by UNAIDS and the
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UNAIDS and the Global Coalition for Women and AIDS recently concluded their &quot;16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence&quot; campaign, aimed at raising awareness of the &quot;links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV infection&quot;.
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MUMBAI: A couple of days ago, the first-ever global creative meeting on HIV/Aids was held by the United Nations in New York. The event was attended by over 100 creative and programming directors from 35 media
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[LUSAKA] Africa&#39;s scientific community should develop standards to guide research on microbicides - substances that kill or block the HIV virus â-aid participants at a meeting on vaginal microbicides held last week (17-19 November) by the Southern
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Global efforts to curb the spread of HIV/Aids are failing because the world has not recognised that it is a female epidemic, a report said yesterday.
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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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Every report on HIV issued over the past several years indicates that women, and especially African American women living in the United States, are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS at alarming rates.
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AIDS is spreading faster among women than men in most parts of the world, the United Nations said Wednesday in its annual report marking World AIDS Day.
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Women using a microbicide to prevent transmission of the AIDS virus become infected more often than those in a control group. In Sex Drive Daily.
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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 them the power to  stand up to men, experts said on Wednesday.
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Women and girls are the focus of today&#39;s World AIDS Day in part because the number of women with HIV globally has increased to comprise nearly 50 percent of adults living with the disease
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(Bangkok, Thailand-AP) Dec. 1, 2004 - Every December 1st the United Nations spearheads commemorations of the global AIDS epidemic and this year, the focus is on women and girls.
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The epidemic of human immunodeficiency virus  infection is growing more rapidly in women  than in men in almost every part of the world, according to a new report.
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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