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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The effectiveness of a five-year, $15 billion, program to combat HIV-AIDS overseas may have been damaged, some fear, after congressional debate left it freighted with lobbyists’ religious beliefs about sex, condoms and abstinence.
Two new studies shed partial light on the obscured image of lesbians with AIDS. In order to meet these women’s needs, clinicians and scientists may have to redefine the word “lesbian.”
Many concerned about women’s health were delighted when Bush announced his $15 billion package to fight AIDS. Alarms are now going off with indications that the “global gag rule” will be extended to these funds.
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.
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