Groups mark World AIDS Day with call for women&#39;s empowerment
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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 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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(Bangkok, Thailand-AP) Dec. 1, 2004 - Every December 1st the United Nations spearheads commemorations of the global AIDS epidemic and this year, the focus is on women and girls.
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omen and girls are especially vulnerable to the AIDS virus and need to take steps so they don&#39;t get infected, speakers at a World AIDS Day event in Louisville said yesterday.
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Hundreds of Indians demonstrated on Friday to demand new anti-retroviral (ARV) drugs, while health workers in Muslim-majority Indonesia marked World AIDS Day by handing out condoms to prostitutes for safe sex.
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ROANOKE RAPIDS - People around the world marked World AIDS Day on Wednesday, an annual event observed every Dec. 1. The campaign draws public and health agency representatives together to learn more about
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Women and girls are the focus of today&#39;s World AIDS Day in part because the number of women with HIV globally has increased to comprise nearly 50 percent of adults living with the disease
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World AIDS Day today aims to celebrate progress made against the global epidemic that has killed 30 million in two decades and left 40 million more infected.
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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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December 1 is World Aids Day. Global attention is focused on women and girls with the day&#39;s theme: &quot;Women, Girls, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) and Aids (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome)&quot;.
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Governments must do more to ensure women and girls get treatment for HIV/AIDS, the United Nations health agency said Tuesday, the eve of World AIDS Day.
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In 1988, when World AIDS Day began, 10 million people worldwide were living with AIDS. Today, nearly 40 million men, women and children are HIV positive.
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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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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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Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. This annual global event is dedicated to remembering the victims of AIDS, learning more about the devastating effects of the disease and reaffirming the commitment to fight it.
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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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In the candlelit darkness of the Northwest United Protestant Church, people gathered Wednesday night to commemorate World AIDS Day spoke aloud the names of friends and family members suffering from the disease, and those who have died.