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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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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Today is World AIDS day, and across the globe, events are being held to draw attention to the disease and promote its eradication.
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The AIDS pandemic rampaging around the globe will not be stopped without radical social change to improve the lot of women and girls, who now look likely to die in greater numbers than men, UN agencies said on Tuesday.
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Each year on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day is commemorated around the globe. It celebrates progress made in the battle against the disease and brings into focus the challenges that remain.
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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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Participants at a day&#39;s seminar organized by the Gender Studies and Human Rights Documentation Centre have blamed the high numbers of women living with HIV/AIDS on gender inequities and the lack of adequate legislations on women&#39;s rights.
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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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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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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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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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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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New Delhi: Concerned over the stigma faced by HIV+ women who are not yet suffering from AIDS, the National Commission for Women (NCW) today called for creating awareness among health workers and the general public that all HIV+ cases do not develop into
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The world's deadliest year yet for AIDS was marked with concerts, processions and speeches, as the United Nations focused on women, who are suffering a increasing share of new cases.
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GENEVA - From Armenia to Zambia activists turned out by the thousands for World AIDS Day on Wednesday, singing in mighty cathedrals, lighting candles in city squares and playing sports.
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WASHINGTON  - The international community turned the spotlight on the devastating and increasing impact of AIDS on women and girls to mark World AIDS Day.
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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