As international officials mark World AIDS Day, researchers are looking for new measures that will help women protect themselves from the deadly disease. One possibility: the diaphragm.
When Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe began his fast-track land-reform program more than two years ago, he promised that female-headed households would receive 20 percent of redistributed land. That apparently hasn’t happened.
At the World Summit on Sustainable Development, an agreement was reached to promote clean water and sanitation facilities throughout developing nations, a pact that could have a profound impact on women’s lives.
Southern Africa’s famine is especially devastating for women in Malawi, where widows have no property rights and AIDS leaves grandmothers to care for hungry orphans.
A treaty ended Angola’s civil war last month, yet women are still struggling to feed themselves and their families. In the nation’s capital, 70 percent of residents are unemployed and many women enter the informal market, selling even themselves.
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