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Cash transfer schemes reduce the chances of adolescent girls and young women contracting HIV
Efforts aimed at redressing gender inequalities and socioeconomic inequities can mitigate factors that fuel the HIV epidemic.
Kenya: Global Fund Boosts Kenya HIV Kitty With USD 420 Million
The Global Fund, the body that finances the world's HIV, tuberculosis (TB) and malaria programmes, has given Kenya Ksh42 billion (USD 420 million) to cover the intervening years to 2024
Spousal Inheritance Fuels Spread Of AIDS in Zimbabwe
17 January 2020 "A woman, the wife in particular, here in Zimbabwe, is being inherited like property after her husband dies even from AIDS, automatically becoming a wife of a husband’s relative who she never knew either had AIDS or not, thus putting herself at risk," Read the full article online here .
UNODC trainings to benefit women inmates
14 January 2020 The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has rolled out a series of trainings to build the capacity of penitentiaries from SADC Member States to uphold human rights and respond to HIV, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) that disproportionately affect women inmates. The trainings are set to be offered in Zimbabwe, Zambia, Namibia, Eswatini, Lesotho, Mozambique and Malawi. Read the full article online here .
Nigeria: UN Agency Trains, Empowers 300 HIV Positive, Displaced Women in Skills, Arts
18 December 2019 The United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, UN Women, has trained and empowered 300 vulnerable Nigerian women residing in Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, camps and those living with HIV/AIDS. Read the full article online here .