The Feminization of HIV/Aids in African Countries
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Presentation by Mary M. Kanya, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Swaziland to the United States of America, at the Fifth Annual African Women&#39;s and Children&#39;s Health Symposium: The Feminization of HIV/Aids on Thursday, November 11, 2004, at the University of
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AIDS. It killed roughly 3 million people last year, most of them poor, and most of them in Africa. Between 34 and 42 million people are living with HIV.
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The number of women infected with HIV has risen in every region of the world over the last two years as the global AIDS epidemic continues to expand, the United Nations said yesterday.
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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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With AIDS becoming the leading cause of death for women aged 25-44, local organizers will focus on women during this week&#39;s World AIDS Day events.
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PRETORIA -- The number of women infected with HIV is rising in every region of the world, according to a new UN report released yesterday, and top AIDS officials said long-used strategies to help prevent the spread of the deadly disease among women are woefully inadequate.
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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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Inside the corps of doctors trying to stem the tide of HIV among the continent's youngest patients
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THE number of women living with HIV has risen in each region of the world over the past two years, with the steepest increases in East Africa, followed by Eastern Europe and Central Asia, according to latest findings published in a report entitled: Aids
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LONDON, Sep 1 (IPS) - The state of reproductive health is getting worse   in several African countries, a new 'report card'  prepared for a London  meet reveals.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan : Dec 02 (SADA) - Empowering women and taking preventive measures to fight against AIDS will stem spread of epidemic.
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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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The first anti-AIDS vaginal gel to make it through late-stage testing failed to stop HIV infection in a study of 6,000 South African women
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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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A number of studies showing that circumcision among men reduces their risk of infection from the AIDS virus has raised the hope that the procedure would also benefit their female sexual partners.
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Safe no more: An acute global shortage in contraceptives has experts in Africa predicting a population explosion and a frightening spread of AIDS.
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Women make up nearly half of the 37.2  million adults living with HIV and in sub-Saharan Africa the  proportion rises to almost 60 percent, according to a UN report  released on Tuesday.