13 August 2018
An Opinion Piece by Rejoice Nharaunda
Globally, women constitute over half of the population of people living with HIV. The trend is the same in sub-Saharan Africa where more than 57% of adults living with the infection are women - with heterosexual sex as the dominant mode of HIV transmission. Additionally, the result of a number of variables, sub-Saharan Africa has a peculiar prevalent phenomenon…
23 July 2018
Opinion piece by Anne Stagl (the International Center for Research on Women) and Caitlin Bryan (Boston University School of Public Health).
20 July 2018
Eastern and Southern Africa remain the regions most affected by the HIV epidemic, accounting for 45 percent of the world’s HIV infections and 53 percent of people living with HIV globally. This was revealed in the newly released Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS report titled, ‘Miles to go – closing gaps, breaking barriers, righting injustices.’ However, the report says there should be a responsibility between…
17 July 2018
Voices from the Field features contributions from scholars and practitioners highlighting new research, thinking, and approaches to development challenges. This piece is authored by Gary M. Cohen, Founder and Board Chair, Together for Girls and Executive Vice President, Global Health, BD (Becton Dickinson and Co.), President, BD Foundation and Dr. Daniela Ligiero, Executive Director and CEO, Together for Girls.
29 June 2018
5 June 2018
Tanzania's Ministry of Health, Community, Development, Gender, Elderly and Children launched a new programme to combat HIV among adolescent girls and young women in the Singida region and to raise public awareness on adolescent girls and young women just out of school.
The programme is being implemented jointly by the Ministry, AMREF, TAYOA, and TACAIDS in partnership with the Global Fund. It is a pilot project for the…
4 June 2018
A non-governmental organization in Abuja, Nigeria - the AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF) - has emphasized the need to create safe spaces to address the psycho-social needs of young women and girls in the region. Country Programme Director of AHF, Dr. Echey Ijezie, shared that girls were challenged by gaps in pyscho-social support, menstrual hygiene, low confidence and the lack of skills to negotiate safe sex. Dr. Ijezie…
28 May 2018
South Africa has one of the biggest HIV epidemics in the world, with 7.1 million people living with the virus. There is a huge gender disparity in infection rates, with nearly four times the number of young women infected than men their age.
21 May 2018
15 May 2018
Around the world, HIV rates for men and women are more or less equal — except in sub-saharan Africa. This is the only region in the world where the HIV rates for women are substantially higher than that of men. Scholars call this the “feminization” of HIV and AIDS in Africa and have devoted a great deal of effort into studying why.