The feminization of AIDS
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This year, once again, the annual report from the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS and the World Health Organization tragically documents the way the global AIDS epidemic is still killing millions of people and spawning hot spots in Asia and Eastern
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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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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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Women make up nearly half of infected adults worldwide, the United Nations said in issuing its annual report on AIDS.
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A controversial policy promoting   abstinence education to fight AIDS may be the best way to get   men to treat women better, which experts agree is key to   battling the AIDS epidemic, U.S. government AIDS officials said   on Wednesday.
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JOHANNESBURG, 1 Dec 2004 (IRIN) - Growing concern over the sustainability of government-sponsored HIV/AIDS treatment programmes in Southern Africa has prompted renewed calls for a change in sexual behaviour to curb the spread of the disease.
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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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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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AS AIDS increasingly assumes a female face, new efforts to tackle the social conditions that make women particularly vulnerable are urgently needed, the United Nations warns.
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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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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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1145CET--As the World Aids Day is being celebrated around the world, females are being encouraged to be knowledgeable and self-confident to protect themselves from HIV/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 them the power to  stand up to men, experts said on Wednesday.
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The international focus for World AIDS Day 2004 was on women and HIV, since women and girls comprise the largest part of new infections worldwide.
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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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The world's deadliest year yet for AIDS was marked with concerts, processions and speeches, as the United Nations focused on women, who are suffering a increasing share of new cases.
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The number of women living with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the past two years, figures show.