Tag Archives: HIV

Activists fight for the rights of HIV-positive women living in Peru

By UN Women | Published: April 9, 2013

TweetThis post is a part of UN Women’s 1,000 Days for Action on the Millennium Development Goals, a countdown to the MDG deadline on 5 April 2015. Read more here about the current status of MDGs on gender equality. “I believe that, generally speaking, we tend to associate violence with manifestations of physical and sexual violence, and [...]

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Young Women and HIV: The World’s Blind Spot

By Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) | Published: July 27, 2012

TweetToday is the last day of the XIX International AIDS Conference. If we remember one thing from this conference, it should be this: 72 percent of new HIV infections among young people in sub-Saharan Africa are girls. 72 percent. What are we doing that has left young women so vulnerable? When we’re looking at numbers that skewed, we have [...]

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Is an AIDS-free generation possible? Not without women

By Leah Koenig | Published: July 9, 2012

TweetWomen, and particularly young women, are at the center of the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Gender inequality put them there. The International AIDS Conference is in Washington, D.C., in two weeks, and that’s our chance to tell the people in charge to fix it. The facts: Worldwide, young women age 15-24 become infected with HIV at twice the rate [...]

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Dying of red tape: ban on federal funding for syringe exchange programs reinstated

By Chamonix Adams Porter | Published: January 27, 2012

TweetIn 1984, Roger Gail Lyon spoke in front of Congress asking that more efforts be made to combat the new disease that was killing him. In Congress, he made an iconic statement: I came here today with the hope that this administration would do everything possible, make every resource available—there is no reason this disease cannot [...]

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