Women Represent Nearly Half of HIV/AIDS Cases Worldwide
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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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Sub-Saharan Africa has just over 10% of the world&#39;s population, but is home to more than 60% of all people living with HIV-- some 25.4 million.
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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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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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Over two million elderly Tanzanian women are at risk of contracting HIV/AIDS due to neglect, ignorance and poverty, a new study by HelpAge International has revealed.
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HIV EPIDEMIC is rapidly spreading across the world, and according to a UN report, it is estimated that by the end of year 2004 more than forty million people including 18.
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An international team of researchers, including a researcher at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near Covington, has brought millions of vulnerable women closer to a potentially powerful weapon against HIV.
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Nearly half of girls in some African  countries are raped, an advocacy group said on Thursday in a  report that sharply criticizes existing programs aimed at  curbing violence to help stop the spread of AIDS.
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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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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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The international community on Wednesday turned the spotlight on the devastating and increasing impact of AIDS on women and girls to mark World AIDS Day.
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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.. Nearly half of the 37.2 million
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The number of people living with HIV/Aids in India is around half of previous official estimates, new figures say.
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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.
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More than 40 percent of women in India have not heard of AIDS, according to a government survey that has alarmed activists.
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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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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.