Archive for the 'HIV/AIDS' Category
Over the past few years, health workers in Malawi have noticed an unforeseen consequence of the availability of free antiretrovirals: more rape victims are showing up in hospitals.
Since 2005, when the Global Fund began providing AIDS drugs to the country, word has been spreading that Post Exposure Prophylaxis, a 30-day preventative combination of the medication, [...]
Passing AIDS from mother to child is a human rights violation and soon all pregnant women in India will have to undergo a mandatory HIV test, the parliamentary forum on HIV and AIDS said last week.
“We want a HIV free generation. We are for testing all pregnant women for HIV so that no children [...]
When health officials talk of the need for “behaviour change” as the only way to end the AIDS onslaught, they are not just talking about change in sexual behaviour, but change in the way men treat women and girls in our society.
The more “in control” a woman or girl is of her life, the [...]
A new approach is being taken to fight violence against women and HIV/AIDS, in Dominica and in the Caribbean region.
Over 20 individuals representing women’s groups and HIV/AIDS organizations, on Thursday began discussions on the findings of a study conducted by the University of the West Indies, Barbados, on the intersections between HIV/AIDS and violence against [...]
The involvement of men and boys is imperative to reducing the spread of HIV among women, according to a panel of experts participating in a new UNICEF podcast – part of a series on children and AIDS.
AUDIO: Listen now http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/ramfiles/urp8420_podcastHIV.ram
Women and girls are disproportionately vulnerable to HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, where HIV prevalence rates [...]
Researchers for a leading international medical journal say South Africa’s health system is failing women and children in particular, but that new leadership could solve many of the problems.
At a meeting in Johannesburg, South African Health Minister Dr. Aaron Motsoaledi listened attentively as The Lancet experts detailed the findings of an issue released last month [...]
The International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA-Ghana) has called for a linkage in cultural practices to the country’s legal framework.
Mrs Chris Dadzie, a FIDA member, said on Tuesday at a Policy Dialogue forum on HIV/AIDS in Tema that cultural practices must be factored into the country’s laws for its effective implementation.
The dialogue, which was organized [...]
More than 1.5 million women living with HIV in Asia were infected by their partners and 50 million more are at risk of infection, according to a report released on Tuesday.
The “HIV Transmission in Intimate Partner Relationships in Asia” report by UNAIDS said the women at risk are either married or in long-term relationships with [...]
The jury deliberating on a most unusual trial – the first South East Asia Court of Women on HIV and Human Trafficking in South East Asia – here have urged the governments, UN agencies, civil society organizations and others to urgently address the vulnerabilities of women to trafficking and HIV.
However, these responses should be [...]
Rwanda’s draft law that would make compulsory HIV testing and require the sterilisation of all people with intellectual disabilities, has been contested by the Human Rights Watch.
The organisation, one of the world’s leading independent ones in defending and protecting human rights, says provisions of the draft are deeply flawed and should be expunged.
The draft’s provisions [...]
A new maternal mortality study names HIV and AIDS as the cause of one in four maternal deaths in Zimbabwe.
The first comprehensive assessment of deaths resulting from pregnancy or childbirth revealed that 725 Zimbabwean women out of every 100,000 who deliver, die due to complications.
“The study findings have confirmed our worst fears: that indeed the [...]
The well-being of millions of people could be put at risk as HIV prevention and treatment programmes fall victim to funding cutbacks as a result of the global economic crisis, warns a new report released today by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Bank.
The report, “The Global Economic Crisis and HIV [...]
• Communities often reject those with Aids, says campaigner
• Consent allegedly gained just before giving birth
Women in Africa are being sterilised without their consent after being told the procedure is a routine treatment for Aids, a lawsuit will claim.
Forty HIV-positive women in Namibia have been made infertile against their will, according to the International Community [...]
Taking a Deep Look At Why Women Are Vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
Think again about the face of HIV/AIDS today. So much has changed about the virus since the media reported in the early 1980s on an outbreak of a rare form of cancer among gay men in New York and California.
A new book edited by [...]
Inter Press Service last week examined how an increasing number of women living with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean face stigma, discrimination and gender-based violence that is linked to the spread of the disease. UNAIDS reports that women overall now account for half of the population living with HIV in the Caribbean, compared with 30% in [...]
Anecdotal evidence that entrenched cultural beliefs among Swazis actively encourage the spread of HIV/AIDS has been confirmed by a joint government and UN report.
The study by UN the Population Fund (UNFPA) and Swaziland’s Ministry of Health and Social Welfare – The State of the Swaziland Population – echoes warnings by local NGOs that “AIDS [...]
The scale of the Rwandan genocide shocked the world – and left the country reeling. An estimated 800,000 people died in 100 days of wanton violence that began 15 years ago this week. And the Hutu militias not only murdered their mostly Tutsi victims, but anywhere between a quarter and half a million women were [...]
Vatican accuses Belgium of trying to ‘intimidate’ Pope after Parliament decision condemns his comments on condoms
In an unusual diplomatic move the Vatican today accused Belgium of trying to “intimidate” Pope Benedict XVI following a resolution by the Belgian Parliament condemning the pontiff for saying during a recent trip to Africa that the use of condoms [...]
A woman diagnosed with HIV has filed a complaint against Chile before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, an international human rights body, charging that the government failed to protect her from being forcibly sterilized at a state hospital immediately after she gave birth. In a petition submitted by the Center for Reproductive Rights and [...]
Ethiopia’s First Lady Azeb Mesfin called for greater political power for women to prop their influence in the war against the triple threat of HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis on the continent.
In her inaugural address as the newly-elected president of the Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/AIDS (OAFLA), Mesfin said here that marginalisation of women [...]
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