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Countries have made impressive progress in carrying out a bold action plan that links poverty alleviation to women's rights and reproductive health, emphasizes The State of World Population 2004 report by UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund. But a shortfall of the funds pledged by international donors is undermining critical efforts to provide family planning services, reduce maternal deaths, prevent HIV/AIDS and meet the needs of young…
Clinical trials of HIV vaccines requires greater participation of women and adolescents, the WorldHealth Organization (WHO) said Tuesday in a press release. Experts attending a recently-concluded HIV vaccine trial conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, said studies show that women are at least twice as likely to become infected with HIV as their male counterparts.
Heads of State and government and senior United Nations officials will be among those meeting in Athens on 14 August, during the Olympic Games, at a special round table discussion of the contribution that sport can make to addressing global problems.
Although the risk patterns that favor the expansion of HIV are very widespread, the majority of the countries of Latin America have still not faced a large-scale AIDS epidemic, according to a publication by the Pan American Health Organization and the World Bank. But recent trends indicate that if the countries of Latin America do not take adequate prevention measures promptly, the incidence of the disease could hit epidemic proportions, the…
Asian-Pacific political leaders have a brief period to save millions of people from HIV infection, but among their biggest challenges are gender inequality, which weakens a woman's defences against an HIV-positive man, along with stigma, which discourages people from finding out their HIV status, United Nations experts said today.
BANGKOK: The fight against HIV/AIDS will endin failure if its impact on women is not addressed properly, said a report released Wednesday at the ongoing 15th International AIDS Conference. Entitled Women and HIV/AIDS, the report reveals that 48 percentof all adults living with HIV are women.
In the first moments after Faniswa Butshingi learned that she was both pregnant and infected with HIV, she said she considered suicide. But that terrible day, a nurse handed her a reason for hope: a bottle of nevirapine.
More than 100 million girls over the next decade will marry before their 18th birthday, including many aged as young as eight or nine, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) warned today at an international meeting in Washington on youth health.
The World Health Organization launched The World Health Report 2004 - Changing History, which chronicles the global spread of HIV/AIDS and details the need for linking prevention, treatment, care and support for people living with the virus. The report concludes that coordinated efforts now to control one of the worst global epidemics, could change the course of history.
The village of Gamula is about as far from the center of power as it is possible to be in this Kuwait-sized country of a million people. Hunger is everywhere, in the bloated bellies of children and the anxious exhaustion of adults. Yet at a community-run care center near Swaziland's southeastern border, Roster Dlamini and two neighbors hold a fragile line against the collapse that threatens a nation battered by years of drought and the worst…
North East Provincial Ministry of Health Tuesday held a one-day workshop for media personnel in the Trincomalee district, soliciting their co-operation to create awareness among the masses in the prevention and control of HIV AIDS in the northeast.
When Edwina Atieno told her neighbours she was HIV positive, her business fell apart. The fear that surrounds Aids in Kenya, as in other African countries, is so potent that no one would touch the fried snacks she cooked.
Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe said Wednesday that home care programs for HIV/AIDS patients should be strengthened throughout the country, to relieve the pressure on public health institutions. The First Lady made the call at the National Launch of Community Based Care Program in Chitungwiza.
Ongoing trials of two potential vaginal microbicides against HIV/AIDS at a hospital in Kampala have so far produced promising results, local newspaper Sunday Monitor reported.
Global estimates indicate that one-third of the burden of ill health and early death among women of child-bearing age (15-45 years) result from sexual and reproductive health complications, especially those relating to pregnancy and sexually transmitted infections (STIs), including HIV/AIDS.
Statements from the UN observance of International Women's Day on March 8, 2004, on the theme of "Women and HIV/AIDS".
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) Monday marked Women's International Day by noting that women overwhelmingly bear the brunt of home health care in the Americas.
Men and women must work together to tackle AIDS by addressing fundamental issues of gender inequality and targeting young people who may be vulnerable to infection, Nane Annan, the wife of the United Nations Secretary-General, said today.
UN Secretary-General hails heroic women leading fight in HIV/AIDS epidemic, says their further empowerment key to global response.
Grace is a happy woman. She is about as poor as you can be, earning just