Two studies of the use of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in heterosexual people show that oral PrEP will protect women against HIV. Read full article here.
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On the periphery of the IAS 2011 conference, UNAIDS in collaboration with the GCWA, ATHENA, Salamander Trust, WECARe+ and Network Persone Seropositive convened a town hall dialogue to discuss how the HIV response facilitates the achievement of sexual and reproductive health and rights for all women. Read full article here.…
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) will soon begin behavioural and social science research on microbicides for HIV prevention. This could potentially offer Indian women safe, effective, acceptable and affordable protection against this deadly disease. Read full article here.
“SHE” – Strong, HIV Positive, Empowered Women – the first comprehensive European patient education programme to address the growing challenges faced by women living with HIV, was launched at the 6th IAS Conference in Rome, Italy. Read full article here.
Vitamin A deficiency (VAD) is known to be a major public health problem among women of reproductive age in South East Asia and Africa. In Ethiopia, there are no studies conducted on serum vitamin A status of HIV-infected pregnant women. Read full article …
A new study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health shows that community members correlate an increase in HIV vulnerability among adolescent girls with weak structural support systems. Read full article here.
IMPHAL: Hordes of NGOs, including the Manipur Network of Positive People, have asked the state government to order a reinvestigation into the recent death of an HIV-positive woman here. Read full article here.
In a densely packed sub-urban township far away from Lutyen’s Delhi, at a small house encased in a cacophony of concrete flats, about 20 women engaged in sex work got together to share their experiences of the AIDS response. Read full article here.
Yesterday, a federal appeals court in New York ruled that the US cannot force organizations to formally pledge to denounce prostitution and sex trafficking in order to receive US funding for HIV and AIDS work. Read full article here.
A small, qualitative study of about 60 women in two clinics in the Durban area, found that while two-thirds of the women did tell their partners they were HIV positive, only half of them reported that their partner had been tested for HIV as a result. Read full article here.
People living with HIV face an additional risk of getting tuberculosis because of weakened immune systems, poverty and malnutrition. HIV-positive women are especially susceptible because they care for TB patients. Read full article here.
Providing pregnant women with a written invitation to test for HIV for their male sexual partners significantly increased the numbers of males attending HIV voluntary counselling and testing at antenatal clinics (ANC) compared to those invited for pregnancy information sessions (PIS). Read full article here.
Most women still find it difficult to negotiate safe sex with their partners. The problem is even more prevalent among women who are economically dependent on men. Some institutionalised social and cultural norms also fuel the challenge. Read full article here.
Life has become complicated for 16-year-old Clodine (not her real name). Six months pregnant and HIV-positive, she lives in a dirt-floor tent with her aunt in a camp for displaced people. Read full article here.
Teenage girls in sub-Saharan Africa are three-to-five times more likely to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS than boys their age. A new study in Malawi, Mozambique and Botswana explores why that is. Read full article here.
Dr Sylvia J. Anie, Director of the Social Transformation Programmes Division of the Commonwealth, says the world body notes with concern women’s vulnerability to the AIDS epidemic. Read full article here.
Windhoek — Katutura Soap Project that helps HIV-positive mothers in Namibia to make a living has grown from strength to strength. Read full article here.
Last week marked the 30th anniversary of what we recognize as the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, in all the talk, there has been one core aspect of HIV/AIDS that has been absent: that women comprise 50% of those living with HIV globally. Read full article here.
World leaders gathered at the United Nations to mark the 30th anniversary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and put out a 102-paragraph declaration. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Adrienne Germain and Alexandra Garita discuss the declaration and the controversies that arise whenever sex is on the agenda. Read full article here…
Today, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Buguruni Health Center in Tanzania. The Health Center is an example of the coordinated services and care that the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) is designed to support around the world. The first principle of GHI is a “focus on women, girls and gender equality.” Read full article here.