Women to lead war on AIDS
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About 400 aid workers from around the world are attending a three-day conference that opened in Islamabad to coincide with World AIDS Day today.
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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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Some 47 percent of the 45 million people worldwide infected with HIV are female, according to the World Health Organization. The United Nations spearheads commemoration of the global AIDS epidemic every December
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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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In last week&#39;s vice presidential debate, moderator Gwen Ifill talked about the disproportionate impact of HIV-AIDS on African American women and asked what role the government should
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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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The excitement at the world's largest AIDS conference was over microbicides that could help women in poor countries protect themselves from HIV in several years.
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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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Every Dec. 1, the United Nations spearheads commemorations of the global AIDS epidemic. This year, the focus is on women and girls.
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Improving women'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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&quot;Today the face of AIDS is increasingly young and female,&quot; said Peter Piot, head of UNAIDS. &quot;We will not be able to stop this epidemic unless we put women at the heart of the response to AIDS.
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On Wednesday, a little more than a month before the start of the Bush administration&#39;s second term, World AIDS Day will highlight the continuing battle against the epidemic.
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Shukria Gul, a Pakistani woman infected with HIV by her late husband, campaigns fervently in this Islamic republic for funds and awareness to prevent it going down the path of rampant HIV/AIDS infection.
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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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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 the rates of women and girls living with HIV/AIDS climbing sharply worldwide, public-health experts and activists this week urged policymakers to go beyond the ABCs of AIDS prevention
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A five-year, $15 billion effort to combat AIDS in Africa and other areas may become a political battleground as it comes up for renewal