The former Eurythmics star is a leading campaigner for women's rights and Aids prevention, and she was invited to address the HIV Priorities for Positive Change: In Women's Words conference at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York on Tuesday. Read full article here.
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We can end HIV/AIDS right now if we want to. We already know how. We know how it's transmitted we know how to prevent and treat it. We're just not doing what it takes to end it. Read full article here.
The United Nations agency charged with gender equality and women’s empowerment today presented concrete areas of focus and goals for the three-day, high-level meeting on AIDS. Read full article here.
As the UN reviews its HIV/Aids strategy, papal representatives are putting doctrine before African women's health. Read full article here.
IMPHAL: Amid contradictory claims, a woman in Imphal was killed by her husband for not disclosing to him that she was HIV positive. A large number of NGOs strongly reacted against the unprecedented homicide. Read full article here.
Ahead of the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS which will begin on 8 June, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) hosted a side event on 6 June at The Harold Pratt House in New York. The discussion focused on women and children's health and the prevention of new HIV infections among children. Read full article here.…
JAIPUR: Rajasthan is highly vulnerable state in terms of spread of AIDS. Despite this, only 15% of the pregnant women received HIV test in 2010-11 to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child. Read full article here.
BHAVNAGAR (Gujarat): Three young HIV positive sisters from the coastal village of Khadsaliya, about 25km from Bhavnagar, ended their lives by drinking pesticide on Friday night. Preliminary investigation suggests that the family members felt stigmatized due to their disease. Read full article here.
More women had participated in the Gauteng HIV testing campaign than men, the Gauteng department of health said on Sunday. Read full article here.
Bar girls have become a rising concern for those looking to stem the spread of HIV, says a recent study conducted by KEM Hospital’s preventive medicine department. Read full article here.
SENIOR government officials and delegates from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) agencies responsible for gender and women's affairs are meeting in Windhoek to consider successes and progress made during 2010/11 in the achievement of gender equity and women empowerment. Read full article here.
KENYA IS set to unveil a new medical compound that block HIV transmission in women and young girls after the successful completion of trials. Read full article here.
Keeping in mind the escalating incidence of HIV transmission, the WHO has recommended certain important steps for preventing its transmission via mother-to-child and ensuring their survival. Read full article here.
Kigali: Spread the word and help at-risk women who receive services the government of Rwanda has put in place. Read full article here.
The Ministry of Health in partnership with Imbuto Foundation, this week, launched a campaign to eliminate MTCT of HIV/AIDS, with a target to reduce the transmission rate at birth to below 2 percent by 2015. Read full article here.
By ignoring the family planning side of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, the international community is failing girls in developing countries. Read full article here.
At the fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, member states met to discuss objectives and targets for the next decade including gender equality and empowerment. Read full article here.
If those who test positive can be put on drugs straight away to protect their own lives and that of their partner's, the stigma and fear associated with HIV must begin to lift.
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Researchers report yet more tantalizing data that the antiretroviral drugs doctors currently use to treat HIV infection could also be effective in preventing transmission of the virus. Read full article here.
Women at high risk of HIV/AIDS have not received adequate education to protect themselves from the virus, a conference on the subject heard yesterday.
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