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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
HIV/AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI's) draft Policy to protect persons living with HIV/AIDS and address issues affecting them is ready for Parliament.
The world is losing the fight against the Aids epidemic, the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, warned today.
Efforts to root out violence against women have run into stiffening resistance in many instances and the issue must now be given the highest priority
AIDS Epidemic 'continues its lethal march' as international action is still far short of what is needed, says Secretary-General on the occasion of World AIDS Day.
While the HIV/AIDS rate in India has not reached the staggering levels found in sub-Saharan countries, cultural factors are speeding the disease's spread,
Women face varying degrees of violence in all its forms and their full enjoyment of human rights is seriously challenged
A workshop conducted by the Ghana Association of Women Entrepreneurs (GAWE) with funds from the Ghana AIDS Commission helped to equip women with entrepreneurial skills as an alternative to engaging in sex as a means of livelihood.
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA)- Ghana on Tuesday called on the government to immediately adopt Gender and HIV/AIDS policies
The first AIDS victim in Kenya was identified in 1984. Since then, an estimated
An international conference focusing on the impact of HIV/AIDS on women opened Tuesday in the Botswanan capital, Gabarone. Delegates are calling for policy changes to look at the disease as a social issue, not just a medical one.
The United Nations General Assembly today convened a high-level meeting to discuss a progress report by Secretary-General Kofi Annan on the worldwide fight against HIV/AIDS, two years after Member States agreed to a time-bound set of targets to roll back the disease.
Speakers at an international conference yesterday called for regional cooperation to check trafficking in women and children in order to prevent spread of HIV/AIDS.