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At the Vasavya Mahila Mandali home for vulnerable women and children in the city of Vijayavada in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, 23-year-old Nagmani clutches her five-year-old daughter in her lap. Neither smiles. The doctors say both of them are traumatised. In January Nagmani's husband died of AIDS.
Zimbabwe remains one of the countries in the world worst affected by the HIV/AIDS pandemic with a prevalence rate of 21.3 percent and women constituting 60 percent of those affected, a government minister said on Tuesday. Health and Child Welfare Minister, David Parirenyatwa, said this at the official launch of the "Man Enough to Care" document by Africare, a nongovernmental organization.
Three babies squirmed on their mothers' laps. One wriggled free. The two others tucked their heads into the curve of their mothers' necks. They waited inside Our Lady of Apostle Hospital, the babies could serve as poster children for efforts to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child. All three mothers are HIV positive. All three children, doctors say, appear to be HIV negative; they hope test results will soon confirm that. Sitting…
A top United Nations official and a number of advocacy groups for AIDS patients charged yesterday that Bush administration policy had led to a shortage of condoms in Uganda, increasing the risk of infection for many people, particularly married women and adolescents.
China is strengthening the prevention and treatment of HIV/AIDS among women, according to a white paper titled Gender Equality and Women's Development in China, issued by the Information Office of China's State Council on Wednesday.
The world knows that Africans bear the brunt of the AIDS pandemic and that nearly two-thirds of the people infected with H.I.V. live here. The disease is devastating households and crippling economies across the continent. Though data show that girls and women are far more vulnerable to infection than men, we have yet to summon the courage and the political will to empower and protect them.
Since it was launched to such hype 13 years ago, the female condom has vanished without trace - from UK shelves, at least. But as Kate Burt discovers, in other parts of the world it has quite literally proved a lifesaver
In my nightmares, I see the women we have failed to protect from AIDS. Women in South Africa do almost everything. When they cook, they harvest spinach, carrots and cabbage from vegetable gardens they have planted themselves. When they clean, they use brooms made from dried grass they walked miles to harvest. They wash their entire family's laundry by hand, wringing out clothes heavy with soapy water with hands that could break the neck of a…
A Johns Hopkins physician and scientist who has spent a quarter-century leading major efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide has issued an urgent call for global strategies and resources to confront the rapid "feminization" of the AIDS pandemic.
The new face of the AIDS virus is the heterosexual female in a long-term relationship, according to a report from Science magazine. It's not because more women are engaging in unprotected casual sex, Lori Heise of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS told ABC News' "Good Morning America." "That's the biggest myth out there right now," said Heise. "Most women are getting infected in long-term relationships."
Breakthrough, an international human rights organization, is launching a 360 degree media campaign, What Kind of Man Are You? to bring public attention to the growing number of married women in India infected by HIV/AIDS. While a lot of effort has gone into spreading awareness about HIV/AIDS among high-risk categories like commercial sex workers, very little has been done to sensitize women in the general public who are vulnerable to the infection…
Top officials at the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, at its yearly meeting are focussing on the negative effects of HIV/AIDS on population dynamics, including population losses and decreased life expectancy, as well as the pandemic's links to increased extreme poverty, stalled economic growth and poor reproductive health in many parts of the world.
The global HIV/AIDS pandemic is taking a catastrophic toll on women and girls. The number of HIV infections among women and girls has risen in every region in recent years, and in sub-Saharan Africa, women and girls constitute nearly 60 percent of those living with HIV. In some countries, the HIV infection rates for girls are many times higher than for boys. The rising number of HIV infections among women and girls is directly related to violence…
Boon Srimai's tranquil life was shattered three years ago when death struck her family twice. Within a space of months in 2002, her 34-year-old son and his wife died of AIDS, leaving behind their young daughter Methini. Suddenly Boon, who was 60 at the time, found herself being a mother all over again, having to care for the orphaned child. She is not the only grandmother shouldering such a responsibility in her village of mostly rice farmers on…
In a community hall in Soweto, South Africa's largest township, 20 men and women try to imagine life in the other gender's shoes. The workshops are largely facilitated by volunteer "peer educators," usually young black men motivated by their own exposure to domestic violence and HIV/AIDS and convinced of the need for change.
Participating in the morning panel discussion of the Commission on the Status of Women, Louise Arbour, High Commissioner for Human Rights said nothing illustrated more starkly the disastrous effects of gender discrimination than the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Since the founders of the United Nations noted their faith in "the equal rights of men and women" on the first page of the UN Charter 60 years ago, studies have shown that "there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women," Secretary-General Kofi Annan said today.
Increased condom use and premature deaths from AIDS-related diseases might be playing more of a role in declining HIV prevalence in Uganda than abstinence and fidelity, according to a study presented Wednesday at the 12th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in Boston, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
A conference on HIV/AIDS among women and girls in the Middle East and north Africa has heard a call for more to be done to help this vulnerable group. Although incidence rates are still low compared to the rest of the world, health practitioners warned that this would not be the case in a year's time.
A large, multisite trial designed to examine the safety and preliminary effectiveness of two candidate topical microbicides to prevent HIV infection has opened to volunteer enrollment. The trial, sponsored by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, represents a partnership among various research institutions in Africa and the United States.