HIV hounds young women
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Mumbai, Nov. 24: The number of women infected with HIV has gone up alarmingly in all parts of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increase in east Asia, followed by eastern Europe and central
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Nearly 30 percent of women in  their late teens suffer recurrent infection with Chlamydia, a  rate higher than previously recognized in this population, new  research shows.
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A new United Nations report shows women and girls are hardest hit by the AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Today&#39;s (Tuesday&#39;s) report says women account for 57 percent of people living with HIV -- the
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An international team of researchers led by Case Western Reserve University has brought millions of vulnerable women closer to a potentially powerful weapon against HIV.
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A worldwide "pandemic" of violence  against women is fueling the spread of HIV/AIDS, human rights  group Amnesty International said Wednesday.
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Protecting the rights of women is a matter of fairness, social stability and public health. Improving the overall societal treatment of women and girls is one way to control the AIDS epidemic worldwide.
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Some 47 percent of the 45 million people worldwide infected with HIV are female, according to the World Health Organization. The United Nations spearheads commemoration of the global AIDS epidemic every December
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NEW YORK  - Nearly 30 percent of women in their late teens suffer recurrent infection with Chlamydia, a rate higher than previously recognized in this population, new research shows.
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Young people face an unprecedented risk of catching AIDS, in particular because they missed the first wave of safe sex campaigning about the disease a decade or more ago, the European Commission warned.
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Women who take combination AIDS drugs not only have benefits for their own health but also may pass along high levels of the medication through breast-feeding, potentially protecting their infants from HIV infection, suggests research being presented at
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More women and children are taking the impact of HIV/AIDS in the world as the disease affects millions in the work force yearly, a report by the International Labor Organization (ILO) indicated.
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Rates of sexually transmitted infections are on the rise among middle-aged women, experts warn.
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As dozens of teenagers swayed and shimmied to the throb of a go-go band on a District dance floor yesterday, a handful crammed onto benches nearby, silent and fidgeting as they waited to be tested for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS.
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Improving women's rights could boost the battle against AIDS in southern African countries, where women are often forced into risky sex by male partners or economic desperation, a new report said on Friday.
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Ugandan youth have been urged to play a leading role in promoting messages of abstinence from premarital sex as a way of safeguarding themselves from HIV/AIDS and other sexually
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HIV (human immunodeficiency infection) tends to spread among women at a far greater speed than among men, a new report reveals. The &quot;feminization&quot; of AIDS appears to reflect a maturing of the epidemic, said
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About a quarter of the people diagnosed HIV positive so far this year are women and children. The Aids Epidemiology Group at Otago University says of the 108 HIV positive cases to the end of September, 23 were women and four were children.