1st December - World Aids Day
- HIV-AIDS And Violence Against Women
- The need to ensure that women and girls have access to antiretroviral drugs and other AIDS treatments on an equitable basis. In this regard WHO and UNAIDS are urging governments to set national targets for women. (plus) The need to address gender equality and in particular, violence against women, as an integral part of the response to the AIDS pandemic.
- Integration of gender sensitive HIV/AIDS workplace programmes
- About half those living with HIV are women, but women are now becoming infected at a faster rate than men. Many women experience sexual and economic subordination in their personal relationships and at work, and so cannot negotiate safe sex or refuse unsafe sex. This briefing from the International Labour Organization (ILO) ...
- Women, HIV/AIDS and human rights
- "Women must not be regarded as victims. They are, in many places, leading the way forward. In communities scattered around the globe, women and men are taking action to increase knowledge about the disease, expand access to sexual and reproductive health and educational services, increase women's ability to negotiate safer sexual relations, combat gender discrimination and violence and increase access to female-controlled prevention methods such as the female condom." ...
- Once again, women are shown to be bearing the brunt of the epidemic globally.
- Women now make up nearly half of the 37.2 million adults aged 15-49 living with HIV worldwide. In sub-Saharan Africa about 60% of those with HIV are women. When you look at only young people aged 15-24, this rises to 75%. Over the past two years alone, the number of women infected in East Asia has increased by 56%. In Eastern Europe and Central Asia the number has increased by 48%.
- International Community of Women Living with Aids
- http://www.icw.org/tiki-view_articles.php
- Positively Women working to improve the quality of life of women and families affected by HIV
- What's happening around the UK for women living with HIV?
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