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The GRACE Study: Insights Into Gender, Race, And HIV Therapy |
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Written by Administrator
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Enrollment of women in clinical trials of new anti-HIV drugs is extremely low, representing only about 15% of all treatment-experienced patients. For women of color it is even lower. Why women, and especially women of color...
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Call for gender-focused HIV care |
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Written by Administrator
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Battling HIV-AIDS is a full time job for a British Columbia woman who's had the disease for more than 25 years and struggles to find care in a province with "seriously inadequate" health-care resources for women living with the illness.
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Ban Calls On Member States to Press Ahead With Efforts to Realize AIDS-Free World |
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Written by Administrator
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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Member States to press ahead with efforts to realize the vision of a world free of AIDS, as the United Nations General Assembly met to consider progress in the global struggle against the epidemic.
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Liberia: UN Commits to support HIV prevention |
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Written by Administrator
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Eleven United Nations Agencies operating in Liberia have committed their willingness to continue their support for the provision of treatment, care for HIV&AIDS prevention in the country.
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Intimate partner violence associated with subsequent HIV infection in Uganda |
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Written by Administrator
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Ugandan women who have been subject to violence from a sexual partner are more likely than other women to go on to acquire HIV, according to a large, longitudinal study from the Rakai cohort, published in the May 15 issue of AIDS. Women who had experienced more severe forms of violence, more frequently, or over a longer period of time had greater risks of HIV infection.
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'I'm a woman, a wife, sister and mother, I also have HIV' |
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Written by Administrator
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The disease is a manageable condition thanks to medical advancements. But its psychological aspects can be far more destructive, writes Deirdre Cashion.
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Violating Women’s Rights: Forced Sterilization, Population Control and HIV/AIDS |
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Written by Administrator
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Though sterilization can be an effective family planning option for many women, when performed without their prior and full informed consent, it is a serious violation of women’s human rights, specifically their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR).
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Women living with HIV appeal to pharmacists to end strike |
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Written by Administrator
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Some Women Living with HIV in the Brong-Ahafo Region have appealed to the Ghana Pharmaceutical Association to end their strike action to enable them have access to Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) drugs. They said the strike by the pharmacists was a threat to their lives as they supplied the ARTs, which they needed for their survival.
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HIV vaccine trials need women |
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Written by Administrator
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In Uganda and some African countries, the situation is frustrating and puzzling. Women seek health care services more than men, yet men are more willing to participate in trials?
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Liberia: GOL, UN Partners Review Gender Equality & HIV |
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Written by Joel Shaw
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The Government of Liberia through the Ministry of Gender and Development (MoDG) in collaboration with the National AIDS Commission (NAC), UNAIDS and other institutional partners undertook a joint review of the Operational Plan for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV. Read full article here. |
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Alicia Keys launching HIV campaign aimed at women |
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Written by Joel Shaw
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You know her best as a multi-platinum recording artist and a 14-time Grammy award-winning singer, songwriter and producer. But Alicia Keys has also made quite a name for herself as a philanthropist and AIDS advocate. Read full article here. |
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Chinese Women with HIV Suffer Harassment and Stigma |
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Written by Joel Shaw
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Human rights and press freedom are crucial if China is to achieve its stated AIDS prevention goals, particularly when it comes to safeguarding women and children, a leading AIDS specialist has said. According to U.S.-based dissident doctor Wan Yanhai, AIDS prevention is intimately bound up with human rights and the empowerment of women, and China is no exception. Read full article here. |
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Midwives to be involved in HIV/AIDS prevention |
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Written by Joel Shaw
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In a bid to stem the rising mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS in Semarang municipality, Central Java, the local administration will enlist the help of midwives. According to chairman of the municipal branch of the Indonesian Family Planning Association (PKBI), Dwi Yoga Yulianto, midwives play a vital role in preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. Read full article here. |
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HIV positive women call for gender-focused care to curb death and transmission |
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Written by Joel Shaw
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years and struggles to find care in a province with "seriously inadequate" health-care resources for women living with the illness. The lack of woman-centred, holistic and culturally-competent treatment is a "national disgrace" for Margarite Sanchez, 56, who was diagnosed with HIV-AIDS in 1993. Read full article here. |
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Link between violence and HIV must be made explicit, say African ministers |
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Written by Administrator
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The link between gender-based violence and HIV infections needs to be explicit in the outcome document of the UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW), delegates said this week. Read full article here |
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