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Dr Sylvia J. Anie, Director of the Social Transformation Programmes Division of the Commonwealth, says the world body notes with concern women’s vulnerability to the AIDS epidemic. Read full article here.

Windhoek — Katutura Soap Project that helps HIV-positive mothers in Namibia to make a living has grown from strength to strength. Read full article here.

Last week marked the 30th anniversary of what we recognize as the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. However, in all the talk, there has been one core aspect of HIV/AIDS that has been absent: that women comprise 50% of those living with HIV globally. Read full article here.

World leaders gathered at the United Nations to mark the 30th anniversary of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and put out a 102-paragraph declaration. In an interview with the Huffington Post, Adrienne Germain and Alexandra Garita discuss the declaration and the controversies that arise whenever sex is on the agenda. Read full article here…

Today, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton visited the Buguruni Health Center in Tanzania. The Health Center is an example of the coordinated services and care that the U.S. Global Health Initiative (GHI) is designed to support around the world.  The first principle of GHI is a “focus on women, girls and gender equality.”  Read full article here.

Today, the most likely victims of HIV/AIDS are young women. In countries most devastated by AIDS, such as those in sub-Saharan Africa, three young women are infected for every man that is infected. Read full article here.

The UN meeting on AIDS this week marked the tenth anniversary of the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS. Commitments made to regard gender equality in addressing this scourge as usual left women more prone to being infected and affected. Read full article here.

World leaders gathered in New York for the 2011 United Nations High Level Meeting on AIDS have today launched a Global Plan that will make significant strides towards eliminating new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive. Read full article here.

To bring to the forefront priority actions for the AIDS response put forward by women around the world ahead of the General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS, a special event was held on 7 June. Read full article here.

Tetiana Afanasiadi is regional coordinator for Alliance Ukraine in Odessa, part of the International HIV/AIDS Alliance global partnership. Read full article here.

The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) welcomes a new United Nations (UN) Security Council resolution on HIV which has been adopted at the UN Security Council in New York.   Read full article here.

Alicia Keys is committed to making a change for women everywhere. The “Superwoman” was one of the celebrities invited to speak on the panel at “HIV Priorities for Positive Change: In Women’s Words” during the United Nations conference on AIDS in New York City.  Read full article here.

The former Eurythmics star is a leading campaigner for women's rights and Aids prevention, and she was invited to address the HIV Priorities for Positive Change: In Women's Words conference at the United Nations (U.N.) headquarters in New York on Tuesday. Read full article here.

We can end HIV/AIDS right now if we want to. We already know how. We know how it's transmitted we know how to prevent and treat it. We're just not doing what it takes to end it. Read full article here.

The United Nations agency charged with gender equality and women’s empowerment today presented concrete areas of focus and goals for the three-day, high-level meeting on AIDS. Read full article here.

As the UN reviews its HIV/Aids strategy, papal representatives are putting doctrine before African women's health. Read full article here.

IMPHAL: Amid contradictory claims, a woman in Imphal was killed by her husband for not disclosing to him that she was HIV positive. A large number of NGOs strongly reacted against the unprecedented homicide. Read full article here.

Ahead of the UN General Assembly High Level Meeting on AIDS which will begin on 8 June, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) hosted a side event on 6 June at The Harold Pratt House in New York.  The discussion focused on women and children's health and the prevention of new HIV infections among children. Read full article …

JAIPUR: Rajasthan is highly vulnerable state in terms of spread of AIDS. Despite this, only 15% of the pregnant women received HIV test in 2010-11 to prevent transmission of HIV from mother to child. Read full article here.

BHAVNAGAR (Gujarat): Three young HIV positive sisters from the coastal village of Khadsaliya, about 25km from Bhavnagar, ended their lives by drinking pesticide on Friday night.  Preliminary investigation suggests that the family members felt stigmatized due to their disease. Read full article here.…