Archive for the 'HIV/AIDS' Category
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 [...]
A new study has revealed that religious and traditional challenges are a hindrance to dealing with HIV/AIDS and violence against women (VAW).
It states that in Northern Ghana, women continue to suffer violence in spite of existing laws due to negligence and ignorance about women and people’s rights, and misinterpretation of religious and cultural practices.
Even supposed [...]
In the world today, more than 16.6 million women and girls are infected with HIV and AIDS – nearly half of the population of Canada.
Even more disturbing, women and girls are more likely than men and boys to become infected. Among young people in Africa, for example, women constitute 77 per cent of new infections.
Why? [...]
A woman in Malawi left her husband after years of abuse. He found her and raped her, an act not criminalised in Malawi when it occurs within marriage.
The woman later tested positive for HIV and discovered that her husband had known his HIV-positive status for some time.
When she confronted him about why he had infected [...]
Existing AIDS prevention and care efforts need to be substantially reoriented and the gender-empowerment efforts intensified to address the increasing vulnerability of women to HIV and reduce its disproportionate impact on them, suggests a new publication from the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Launched on World AIDS Day, the publication titled “Women and HIV in [...]
Celebrating a journey of change, over hundred HIV positive women in Delhi underscored the need for women’s leadership to combat the Virus at the national convention on the World AIDS Day.
A journey that began a decade ago with just a few has now found voice among thousands from across the country. The once silenced community [...]
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Access to HIV testing and antiretrovirals for prevention of mother to child HIV transmission has grown substantially over the past four years in the countries most severely affected by HIV, UN agencies reported today – but around 40% of women in the high prevalence countries of southern Africa are still not being offered an HIV [...]
25 Nov International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women
01 Dec World AIDS Day
06 Dec Anniversary of the Montreal Massacre
10 Dec International Human Rights Day
International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women – 25th November
November 25 was declared International Day Against Violence Against Women at the first Feminist Encuentro for Latin [...]
Recent postings- Murder of human rights activist Natalia Estemirova condemned
- Three publications from AWID’s Resisting and Challenging Religious Fundamentalisms
- Rabbanit? Rabbah? Maybe just plain Rabbi? What should be the title of an Orthodox woman who happens to also be a rabbi?
- Inquiry urged after Sudan women flogged for wearing trousers
- Accountability To Women Could Upset Business As Usual
- Fight Sexism to Help Young Mothers – South Africa
- Soldiers Who Rape, Commanders Who Condone: Sexual Violence and Military Reform in the Democratic Republic of Congo
- Worrying increase in gang rape say police in Angola
- Repatriation of Rwandan Women Refugees in Uganda could increase hardships
- HRW condemns Rwanda’s draft law on HIV tests and sterilisation
- Gender Wire
- AFRICA: Organic Farming Could be Answer to Food Insecurity
- EDUCATION: Mother Tongue Absent in Thousands of Classrooms
- Q&A: 'Farmers Can Gain From Crisis'
- DR-CONGO: Rape by Regular Army a Growing Problem, HRW Says
- PERU: Going to School Still a Feat for Rural Girls
- CUBA: What Schools Can and Cannot Do for Equality
- FILM: Graphically Condemning a "Barbaric and Horrific Punishment"
- ECONOMY: Accountability To Women Could Upset Business-As-Usual
- POLITICS-US: Sotomayor Poised Amid Senatorial Jousting
- Q&A: "My Boyfriend Insisted I Quit Dancing, My Answer Was No"
- new on womensgrid
- Natalya Estemirova
- A Woman of Substance Award – nominations close 31st July 2009
- Art Exhibition & Panel Discussion – Women in Conflict – 31st July and 1st August 2009
- Public Meeting: Margaret Prescod – Tell us about Obama, about US policy in Haiti & Honduras …
- Disproportionate number of children who are killed came from homes with domestic violence
- Lost daughters campaign
- Refused asylum seekers forced to eat from bins says Rowntree trust
- Four years on Tesco still stalling on South African women’s farm pay
- The words of God do not justify cruelty to women
- Irish Women Challenge Abortion Ban in European Human Rights Court
- new on women in london
- 4 vacancies - Refuge - 28th July 2009
- Female Community Outreach Officer - Kiran - 14th August 2009
- Volunteer Co-ordinator - Jewish Women’s Aid - 10th August 2009
- 2 vacancies - Eaves - 17th and 22nd July 2009
- Public investment in childcare : who cares, who pays? - Daycare Trust - 17th November 2009
- Feminism in London - conference organised by London Feminist Network - 10th October 2009
- GLDVP Newsletter - July 2009
- GLDVP Stella Project advanced training for experienced workers - 6th August and 8th September 2009
- Being a mum has ‘devastating’ impact on earnings - new report - Fawcett
- The GLDVP response to: The Way Forward – A call for action to end violence against women
Can we talk frankly about HIV/AIDS and black women in the USA?
6 December 2008 in BME, HIV/AIDS, North America, Opinion Comment
No? I didn’t think so (says Courtland Milloy in the Washington Post)
After all, who cares to tell sassy little Keisha that if she doesn’t stop mistaking sex for love, her next mistake could be her last. Of course, that wouldn’t be “age appropriate,” now, would it?
What about the Widow Jones? Since her husband passed, she [...]