Amnesty: Violence Against Women Is Spreading AIDS
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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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JOHANNESBURG, 26 November (IRIN) - South African women with violent or controlling male partners run a higher risk of HIV infection, according to a study published in the Lancet medical journal.
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AIDS advocates and health workers on Wednesday marked World AIDS Day by focusing on gender inequalities that can lead to an increased risk of HIV infection among women and girls, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (AP/Long Island Newsday, 12/1).
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Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate.
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Too many societies across the globe are losing the battle against AIDS. Despite increased global funding and access to prevention and care services, the disease continues to spread.
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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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Sexual violence is being used to terrorise entire communities caught in Colombia's conflict, Amnesty says.
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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&#39;s bodies have become part of the terrain of conflict, according to a new report by Amnesty International. Rape and sexual abuse are not just a by-product of war but are used as a deliberate military strategy, it says.
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More African women than men contract HIV, and, worldwide, women reportedly account for one-half of the infections. The International Center for Research on Women
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Participants at a day&#39;s seminar organized by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre have blamed the high numbers of women living with HIV/AIDS on gender inequities and the lack of adequate legislations on women&#39;s rights.
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United Nations officials last week led the world marking the 17th annual World AIDS Day by calling for societies to enable women to protect themselves at a time when nearly half of the 37.2 million people infected are female.
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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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Description: A United Nations report being issued in advance of World AIDS Day says women now account for nearly half the number of people infected with HIV worldwide.
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UNAIDS and the Global Coalition for Women and AIDS to mark world Human Rights Day on Friday concluded their gender violence activism campaign, which aimed to raise awareness of the &quot;links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV infection
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The international human rights group, Amnesty International, said on Wednesday that a global &quot;pandemic of violence&quot; against women was fuelling the spread of HIV and AIDS.
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Women are being infected with HIV at increasing rates in all regions of the world, and their numbers are now nearly equal to men, according to the United Nations and World Health Organization&#39;s annual report on AIDS released Tuesday.