More women had participated in the Gauteng HIV testing campaign than men, the Gauteng department of health said on Sunday. Read full article here.
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Bar girls have become a rising concern for those looking to stem the spread of HIV, says a recent study conducted by KEM Hospital’s preventive medicine department. Read full article here.
SENIOR government officials and delegates from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) agencies responsible for gender and women's affairs are meeting in Windhoek to consider successes and progress made during 2010/11 in the achievement of gender equity and women empowerment. Read full article here.
KENYA IS set to unveil a new medical compound that block HIV transmission in women and young girls after the successful completion of trials. Read full article here.
Keeping in mind the escalating incidence of HIV transmission, the WHO has recommended certain important steps for preventing its transmission via mother-to-child and ensuring their survival. Read full article here.
Kigali: Spread the word and help at-risk women who receive services the government of Rwanda has put in place. Read full article here.
The Ministry of Health in partnership with Imbuto Foundation, this week, launched a campaign to eliminate MTCT of HIV/AIDS, with a target to reduce the transmission rate at birth to below 2 percent by 2015. Read full article here.
By ignoring the family planning side of HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment, the international community is failing girls in developing countries. Read full article here.
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.
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…