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AIDS is affecting women and girls in increasing numbers: globally women comprise almost 50% of people living with HIV. Nearly 25 years into the epidemic, gender inequality and the low status of women remain two of the principal drivers of HIV. Yet current AIDS responses do not, on the whole, tackle the social, cultural and economic factors that put women at risk of HIV, and that unduly burden them with the epidemic’s consequences. Women and girls have less access to education and HIV informati more...
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Date: 28 November 2008. Occasion: World AIDS Day, 1 December 2008. ' This year marks the 20th Anniversary of World AIDS Day. Looking back over the last 20 years, we see there has been progress — there is not only greater awareness of the gender dimensions of HIV and AIDS but also greater commitment to addressing these. But today, let us instead look forward, to what the world could look like 20 years from now, if we are able to deliver on these commitments. We would then have cause not just fo more...
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French first lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy has agreed to work with the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to serve as a Global Ambassador for the protection of mothers and children against AIDS, the Global Fund announced on December 1 2008, World AIDS Day. Bruni-Sarkozy will act, in her personal capacity, as a voice on the global stage for the many mothers and children infected with or affected by HIV/AIDS, especially drawing attention to the need to give pregnant women and their chi more...
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Reducing vulnerability risks and impacts of HIV infection among women and girls as well as reduce the burden of care and enhance capacity for mitigation especially amongst women in context of HIV/AIDS. The HIV/AIDS pandemic in Africa poses serious challenges to the overall status of women. Due to their caring role, women have had to care for ailing relatives spouses as well as take up responsibility for children that have been left behind. Again women are vulnerable to being infected by the HIV more...
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Edited by Burke.E,Klot.J, Ikaweba.B. UNIFEM African Women for Peace Series. The book captures the essence of that historic conference of the all party burundi women's peace conference took place in Arusha, tanzania,july 2002.the burundi women had actively worked and lobbied for recognition and inclusion in peace process since 1997.
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For Eric Sawyer, the late 1980s was a “war time situation”. “People with AIDS were fighting for their lives and for their friends”, says Sawyer, an AIDS activist and co-founder of ACT UP New York. By 1988, seven years after the first case of AIDS was reported, AIDS was causing more deaths in the US then there were in the Vietnam War, and between 5 and 10 million people were estimated to be infected with HIV around the world. Yet governments, media and society in general were not giving A more...
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'On the pitch we compete – off the pitch - we are united against AIDS'. These are the messages behind a new Public Service Announcement and poster campaign that UNAIDS is launching featuring UNAIDS Goodwill Ambassador German football star Michael Ballack and his fellow star footballer friend Togolese born Emmanuel Adebayor. The two players are fierce rivals in the game of football each representing the competing Premier League football clubs Arsenal and Chelsea. On they pitch they play hard to more...
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