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Female Condoms and U.S. Foreign Assistance: An Unfinished Imperative for Women's Health, summarizes U.S. support for female condoms, identifies barriers, and offers concrete recommendations for improving U.S. efforts to increase access and availability of female condoms.
People living with HIV face an additional risk of getting tuberculosis because of weakened immune systems, poverty and malnutrition. HIV-positive women are especially susceptible because they care for TB patients. Read full article here.
Providing pregnant women with a written invitation to test for HIV for their male sexual partners significantly increased the numbers of males attending HIV voluntary counselling and testing at antenatal clinics (ANC) compared to those invited for pregnancy information sessions (PIS). Read full article here.
Most women still find it difficult to negotiate safe sex with their partners. The problem is even more prevalent among women who are economically dependent on men. Some institutionalised social and cultural norms also fuel the challenge. Read full article here.
UNICEF's Thomas Nybo reports on crucial services being provided to pregnant woman living with HIV.
This publication provides evidence on the gender dimensions of HIV-related stigma and how this stigma affects women differently than man in Ethiopia, Dominican Republic and Bangladesh. In Bangladesh, over half of women have experienced stigma from a friend or neighbour: 87 per cent have decided not to get married as a result of their HIV status; and nearly a fifth feel suicidal. In Ethiopia only 45 per cent of women have disclosed their…
Life has become complicated for 16-year-old Clodine (not her real name). Six months pregnant and HIV-positive, she lives in a dirt-floor tent with her aunt in a camp for displaced people. Read full article here.
Teenage girls in sub-Saharan Africa are three-to-five times more likely to be infected with the virus that causes AIDS than boys their age. A new study in Malawi, Mozambique and Botswana explores why that is. Read full article here.
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…
This tool, developed in collaboration between WHO, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida) is designed to support countries to strengthen national health strategies.
The tool poses critical questions to identify gaps and opportunities in the review or reform of health sector strategies. Analysis tables include critical questions rooted in…
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.
This video documents the fourth thematic panel during the High Level Meeting on AIDS, "Women, girls and HIV". This panel focused on the disproportionate burden of HIV on women and girls and the need to ensure that their specific needs and vulnerabilities are adequately addressed. It highlighted the progress, challenges and opportunities in addressing the social determinants of women's and girl's vulnerability to HIV infection, as…
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.
High-Level Policy Forum that attracted over 120 ambassadors, ministers, parliamentarians, advocates, youth and media. Focus was on girls, women, and HIV.
Her Royal Highness Mette-Marit The Crown Princess of Norway spoke at the International Peace Institute at an event during the 2011 High Level Meeting on AIDS entitled Prevention and Protection Save Lives: Girls, Women and HIV.