Women's rights key to Africa AIDS crisis: study
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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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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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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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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 and girls should be the focal point of the global war against HIV/AIDS, foreign and local officials said here on Friday. &quot;One of the objects most affected by HIV/AIDS is
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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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HIV/Aids is fast acquiring a feminine face in African countries like Kenya, as biological vulnerability, poverty and sexual violence join to raise infection rates for young women and girls, a report from UNAids has warned.
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BRUSSELS, Sep 13 (IPS) - Inequalities between men and women are not  adequately addressed in aid programmes for countries of the  former Soviet Union, a new study has concluded.
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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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Women were at the frontline of a war that South Africa was involved in against HIV/Aids &quot;and are bearing its full brunt&quot;, says Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
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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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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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On Thursday, attendees at Countdown 2015, a conference in London focused on sexual and reproductive health and rights, say the Bush administration&#39;s international policies are leading to the spread of HIV among women around the world and also are causing
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TORONTO (CP) - In a bid to help staunch the toll HIV/AIDS is taking on the women of the world, Canada announced $105 million in new funding for programs directed at women on Wednesday.
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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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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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An international team of researchers, including a researcher at the Tulane National Primate Research Center near Covington, has brought millions of vulnerable women closer to a potentially powerful weapon against HIV.