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HIV/AIDS Cases Still Rising Among Older Women
After menopause, many women stop fearing the consequences of consensual sex. But with older women now 18 percent of female AIDS cases, activists such as the “condom grandma” are warning contemporaries about the disease.
Scorecard on Bush Finds Rhetoric Gap
As women’s rights groups observe International Women’s Day today, a quarterly scorecard on the Bush administration’s international gender-linked polices gives low marks to the U.S. government in the areas of HIV/AIDS and Afghanistan.
Stigma, Sex Bias Fuel AIDS in Kyrgyzstan
The theme of World AIDS Day on Dec. 1 is that discrimination and stigma are fueling the disease. Evidence of that abounds in Kyrgyzstan, a front line for the disease where women are at higher risk and health workers struggle for funding.
Aid for Girls Going Beyond Schoolhouse
After 30 years of promoting girls’ education in the less-developed world, aid workers are now realizing that it is not enough to simply open the school door to girls. Unemployment, clean water and HIV/AIDS are now also on their agenda.
New Focus of AIDS Battle: Rights for Women
As women overtake men among AIDS sufferers, a new initiative strives to battle the pandemic by buttressing women’s rights in the areas of education, employment and gender violence.
AIDS Complicates Breastfeeding Advice in Africa
Mother’s milk or formula? Health groups are divided over which to recommend to HIV-positive mothers in sub-Saharan Africa after a study challenged the conventional wisdom that it was best for such women to rely exclusively on formula.
