Young women living with HIV may benefit from vaccinations that protect against cervical cancer, according to a new study showing that many HIV-positive women averaging 21 years of age are negative for the human papillomavirus (HPV) types typically associated with tumors, according to a new analysis. Read full article here.
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Girl Power took a journey to Delhi in style as they made a tribute to those living positively. Pastor Jessica Kayanja, dressed like a goddess, looked like she was born in Delhi. Read full article here.
The Convention on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), and the gender dimension of the HIV pandemic in the Caribbean, took centre stage at a two-day workshop hosted by the Bureau of Women's Affairs and UNDP at the Knutsford Court hotel last week. Read full article here.
A new High-Level Taskforce on Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV for Eastern and Southern Africa was launched at the 16th International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa (ICASA). Read full article here.
Zambia has one of the world's worst cases of HIV, and women and girls suffer a higher rate of infection. Health activists say harmful cultural practices – such as the myth that having sex with a virgin can cure AIDS – must be targeted by prevention programmers. Read full article here.
Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a speech that outlined a new course of action in the fight against HIV that sidelined women and reproductive health. Read full article here.
As we make progress in technology to prevent HIV, let's not forget the women who need HIV services. Read full article here.
Nine years ago housewife Mirza “Vivi” Revilia gave birth to a girl. She was a young mother who had no idea what HIV was or how it would affect her life. Read full article here.
To contain the AIDS epidemic, it will take far more than simply finding and treating every patient who is infected with HIV. To truly halt the virus' march, you will also need to shield healthy people from being infected in the first place. Read full article here.
Ahead of this year’s World AIDS Day (1 December), UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador Naomi Watts travelled to Safdarjung Hospital in New Delhi, India, to meet with mothers living with HIV and find out about some of the challenges they face in their daily lives. Read full article here.
“Development is not going to happen without women.” – Interview with head of UN Women in Southern Africa, Nomcebo Manzini. Q: Southern Africa has the highest HIV prevalence rates in the world. How are women affected? Read full article here.
On October 12 and 13, more than 200 women living with HIV and Aids from all over Kenya gathered to demand a political response to the issues that continue to affect women and girls. Read full article here.
Last week, the General Assembly of the United Nations heard a blunt, emphatic message: No longer should the world tolerate the tragic, avoidable deaths of tens of thousands of women forced to seek out unsafe, illegal abortions every year. Read full article here.
Luanda – The director of the National Institute to Fight against HIV/AIDS, Dulcelina Serrano Monday in Luanda said that women register a greater number of HIV infection than men especially in rural areas. Read full article here.
Last month, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), in partnership with George W. Bush Institute, Susan G. Komen for the Cure, and UNAIDS, launched the global "Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon" campaign, an initiative that integrates cervical and breast cancer education, screening, and treatment with HIV services. Read full article…
More than 200 women living with HIV in Kenya committed to championing the response to AIDS in the country. The call for more involved action came at the end of a two-day National Leadership Conference for Women Living with HIV. Read full article here.
A support campaign for Swazi women living with HIV is transforming lives, but needs international backing. Siphiwe Hlophe's shrewd, enterprising spirit is apparent within moments of meeting her. "You work for Comic Relief?" she says. "Brilliant! I might walk away from this meeting with some money." Read full article…
For the past 16 years, Yaa Serwaa (not real name) has been living with HIV / AIDS. She only got to know she was positive after the death of her husband. Her husband had contracted the disease and never informed her. Read full article here.
FIDA-Ghana, under its access to property and inheritance rights project, would provide legal aid to 100 HIV positive women, mostly members of the Association of Persons Living with HIV and AIDS. Read full article here.
An article in yesterday's New York Times by Pam Belluck suggesting that injectable contraceptive use might double the risk of HIV transmission among women and their partners sent a wave of anxiety through the global public health community. Read full article here.