Women&#39;s rights key to Africa AIDS crisis: study
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Improving women&#39;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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Today is the 17th Annual World AIDS Day and this year&#39;s focus is on the number of women who contract the disease. The Dublin AIDS Alliance says women are now more likely to contract the virus and are more
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South Africa and other African nations hard hit by AIDS should consider a mass campaign to circumcise males to help stem the spread of the epidemic, researchers at a major AIDS conference in South Africa said.
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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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&quot;We urgently need a long-term approach to the HIV epidemic that addresses the specific needs of women. Women In developing countries are increasingly more vulnerable than men to HIV and 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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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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Poverty, unemployment and other  socioeconomic factors are helping to fuel a growing HIV problem  among black women, a U.S. study released on Thursday suggests.
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Ceres P. Doyo. IT&#39;S six days before World AIDS Day, which falls on Dec. 1. This year&#39;s theme is &quot;Women and AIDS.&quot; For the past two successive years (2002 and 2003) the theme was &quot;Stigma and Discrimination
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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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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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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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South Africa investigates reports that 137 female delegates to an Aids forum in Canada are seeking asylum.
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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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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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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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31 August 2004 - With women at least twice as likely to become infected with HIV as men when exposed to the virus that causes AIDS - and six times as vulnerable in parts of sub-Saharan Africa - HIV vaccine clinical trials must be geared towards meeting