13 March 2017
After a second wave of intensive household testing, a large study of the 'test and treat' strategy in Zambia is diagnosing more people with HIV, getting more people onto treatment and reducing the time between diagnosis and starting treatment, findings from the PopART study presented last month at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI 2017) show.
19 February 2017
For the last year, Brandi Cooper has taken a once-a-day pill to help protect herself from HIV. It's simple and proven effective, and the Philadelphia woman has enthusiastically shared her find with perhaps 10 other women. Most had never heard of it; only one has taken her suggestion. That, in a nutshell, is the problem facing PrEP for women.
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27 March 2017
As a part of her two-week tour across the United States, Kenyan women’s health and global fund advocate Maurine Murenga lectured about global issues surrounding HIV/AIDS at the University of Iowa on March 24. Murenga was diagnosed with with HIV during her first pregnancy in the early 2000s. She aims to dissuade stigmas around the disease, and promote treatment for women and children.
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27 March 2017
Patience Eshun, a widowed grandmother from Ghana who lost her daughter last year to HIV, knows how destructive HIV-related discrimination can be. “My daughter refused to go hospital to receive medicines. My daughter died because of the fear of stigmatization and discrimination,” she said.
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24 March 2017
Ayushi Tripathi is a student at Banaras Hindu University in Varanasi, a city in India’s northern state of Uttar Pradesh. This week, she joined 27 other students for a three-day workshop to raise young people’s awareness of their sexual and reproductive health and rights. The training was led by the Dove Foundation, a youth-led organization based in Varanasi and supported by UNAIDS. The advocacy materials used were…
8 March 2017
On International Women’s Day UNAIDS has released a new report which shows that there is an urgent need to scale up HIV prevention and treatment services for women and girls. The report, 'When women lead, change happens,' shows that globally in 2015, there were 18.6 million women and girls living with HIV, 1 million women and girls became newly infected with HIV and 470 000 women and girls died of AIDS-related illnesses.
16 March 2017
First Lady [of Namibia] Monica Geingos, who is a mother of a teenager and a young adult, says the only way to get HIV-AIDS awareness through to the youth is to speak to them in their language. “I am speaking from experience,” she told local and international participants at a debate on 'Building a stronger HIV prevention movement in sub-Saharan Africa' at Swakopmund last week.
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7 March 2017
International AIDS Society (IAS) Member Viewpoint: Over the past quarter century since my HIV diagnosis, I have had the good fortune to meet hundreds of extraordinary women who also have this bug in their bodies. As one of the estimated17.8 million women living with HIV worldwide, I want to raise our voices this International Women’s Day and share the six simple things you should know about being a woman living with HIV. It is…
March 2017
8 March 2017
There is a saying in South Africa: Wathint’ abafazi, wathint’ imbokodo. You strike the women, you strike the rock. On International Women’s Day, we want to celebrate the strong women who have always been at the heart of fighting the HIV/AIDS epidemic. For more than 35 years, women have modeled strength and resilience as researchers, nurses and physicians, caregivers, volunteers, advocates, social workers, and community leaders…
9 March 2017
7 March 2017
The Namibia Football Association (NFA) is taking its popular development programme, Galz & Goals to the Oshana and Zambezi regions this month.
This will be done through their Football and Healthy Lifestyle Festivals. Galz & Goals combines football with life skills, HIV/AIDS and health education to create a platform through which adolescent girls can gain skills and knowledge by active participation and learn to…
6 March 2017
"People who are designing the studies, who are funding the studies, need to make [enrolling women] a priority." In an interview on behalf of IFARA at CROI 2017, Andy Kaytes spoke with Rena Patel, M.D., and Monica Gandhi, M.D., about HIV in women. Studies have shown that women taking certain forms of hormonal contraceptives have a higher risk of acquiring HIV than those who do not use such pregnancy prevention.
23 February 2017
The HIV situation in Uganda calls for renewed and urgent action. This is after a new study revealed that every single hour, 2 young women get infected with HIV in Uganda which puts the prevalence of HIV among adolescent girls at 9.1% compared to the national prevalence of 7.3%. This was highlighted at the end of a UNAIDS Global Review Mission to Uganda which held multi stakeholder consultations in Uganda.
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17 February 2017