At the fourth United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, member states met to discuss objectives and targets for the next decade including gender equality and empowerment. Read full article here.
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If those who test positive can be put on drugs straight away to protect their own lives and that of their partner's, the stigma and fear associated with HIV must begin to lift.
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Researchers report yet more tantalizing data that the antiretroviral drugs doctors currently use to treat HIV infection could also be effective in preventing transmission of the virus. Read full article here.
Women at high risk of HIV/AIDS have not received adequate education to protect themselves from the virus, a conference on the subject heard yesterday.
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Environment Impact Assessments (EIA) will be expected to address HIV/AIDS and gender issues in the future after the National AIDS Coordinating Agency (NACA), together with other SADC countries complete an ongoing project that intends on finding ways of integrating these issues into the EIA.
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The World Health Organization’s (WHO) new recommendation for the extended use of triple drug antiretroviral prophylaxis for mother and infant is highly cost-effective compared to the current short-course two drug therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) in Nigeria.
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During the meeting of the UNAIDS High Level Commission on HIV Prevention, commissioners visited Grassroot Soccer's Football for Hope Centre during a Skillz Street practice session involving around 100 girls.
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Women living with and affected by HIV in Latin America met recently in Panama to identify tools and methodologies to undertake their own study on the “vulnerabilities of women living with HIV in Latin America and the Spanish speaking Caribbean.”
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A new initiative “Combating AIDS in GCC countries” was hosted by the Minister of Health of Saudi Arabia, Dr Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Rabeeah and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) on 16 April in Riyadh.
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Dr Osotimehin, Executive Director of UNFPA, addressed a side event called Putting Girls First during the CPD, which ran from 11-15 April at UN Headquarters in New York. UNFPA's director underlined the need to promote girls’ rights and gender equality and to prioritize them within national programmes for health, education, livelihoods and security.
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With support from an International Labour Organization (ILO) programme funded by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, a women's dairy cooperative organizes entrepreneurial skills-building and HIV awareness-raising activities.
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In 2004, two sisters in Rwanda started a “trade-not-aid” initiative that produces high-end handicrafts.+ From a humble beginning with just 20 artisans in the remote village of Gitarama, Gahaya Links…
In a former township outside of Cape Town, South Africa, a new project aims to break down barriers to antiretroviral therapy for pregnant women.
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Three women in Namibia are suing the state for allegedly being sterilised without their informed consent after being diagnosed as HIV positive.
The Director-General of UNESCO, Koïchiro Matsuura, will designate Chantal Biya, First Lady of Cameroon, as UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for education and social inclusion. The designation recognizes the First Lady’s longstanding support for inclusive education, particularly concerning girls, young women, orphans and the underprivileged, as well as for HIV/AIDS research, treatment, education and prevention.
13 November 2008 - The growing number of people crossing boundaries in South-East Asia searching for economic opportunity puts millions at risk to HIV infection with little or no protection or access to services, according to a United Nations report launched today.
BEIJING (Reuters) - Women must be more involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS, a disease increasingly being spread through sex, and men must also be encouraged to respect women more, a senior U.N. official said Friday.
Adult male circumcision is being pushed as the latest magic bullet for the HIV pandemic. There is good reason for the enthusiasm about a new use for the world's oldest surgical intervention. But let's be clear about what circumcision will and will not offer a man and his partner or partners.
Today, on World AIDS Day, we are called upon to be leaders in the fight against AIDS. Where there is strong and committed leadership, the response is more effective.
A new study may help put to rest fears that pregnancy accelerates progression to full-blown AIDS in women with HIV receiving antiretroviral therapy. The study, published in the October 1st issue of the Journal of Infectious Diseases and now available online, revealed that pregnancy may, in fact, slow disease progression in these women.