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Why Are So Many Black Women Dying of AIDS? – New York Times

In this New York Times Op Ed, Laurie Shrage explores how the racial profiling in America may be fueling an urgent public health crisis. In the United States, the rate of HIV infection amongst African American women, is 20 times higher than that of white women. The disproportionately high rates of HIV amongst African American women in America has been recognized at a high level, including by Hillary Clinton as early as 2007, however the…

Patriarchal Society Exposing Zimbabwean Women to HIV Infections

Patriarchal order has left many Zimbabwean women more vulnerable to HIV infection as they remain subservient to men with no negotiating power in sex matters.

Pregnancy could be a turning point for HIV- infected women, when they have the opportunity to manage their infection, prevent transmission to their new baby and enter a long-term pattern of maintenance after giving birth- but most HIV-infected women aren’t getting that chance.

Grassroots Soccer is expanding. The organization, which uses football to reach at-risk youth to try to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS, has just launched a new programme aimed at empowering young girls, smashing harmful gender stereotypes and teaching them about good health habits.

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Kenya Joins US' HIV-AIDS Project

Kenya will be getting new support to prevent and treatHIV/AIDS among young women. United StatesPresident Barack Obama announced last week that Kenya would be included in the DREAMS project.

Chilo Ketlhoafetse struts around an eighth-grade classroom like the coolest guy in Botswana, warming the students up to talk about an awkward subject.

The most effective birth control methods for women with HIV are implants and injectable hormonal contraceptives, HIVandHepatitis.com reports.

HIV rates are driven by widespread global inequalities. What will it take to put the human rights of indigenous women living with HIV on the global map?

A new study shows Canadians being treated for HIV can expect to live longer. But some groups are lagging behind.

Regular anti-retroviral treatment coupled with improved diagnosis is helping to reduce the number of babies being born with HIV in Ethiopia.

Women in developing countries will take HIV-prevention drugs — as long as they know they're receiving them, and not a placebo, a new study suggests. Read more here.

HIV is Personal for Girls in Uganda

Every week, 570 young women aged 15 to 24 get infected with HIV in Uganda, according to a 2011 survey by the country's Ministry of Health. Here, Maureen Amenya tells the story of one of these young people.

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Kenya Joins HIV DREAMS Project

Kenya will be getting new support to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS among adolescent girls. President Obama announced Sunday that Kenya would be included in the DREAMS project.

A new study has found that giving cash transfers to high school girls to attend school in rural Mpumalanga did not reduce their risk of contracting HIV’ according to investigators from the HIV Prevention Trials Network.

Taking an antiretroviral drug daily shielded 76% of young African women assigned the drug [a particularly hard group to protect] against H.I.V infection, researchers said Wednesday as they reported the results of a three-nation clinical trial.

Beyond bio-medical models, recent research has enabled a better psycho-social understanding of how women can access HIV treatment, if they want to, in stressful daily conditions.

An 18-year-old French woman is in remission from HIV - despite not having taken any drugs against the virus for 12 years. Doctors have presented the details of her case at an International Aids Society (IAS) conference in Vancouver.

The AIDS targets of MDG 6—halting and reversing the spread of HIV—have been achieved and exceeded, according to a new report released today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).

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