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.
A former journalist now studying women and policy travels to South Africa and is confronted with the hell of the sex trade and AIDS: infants raped, girls years away from puberty needing condoms; teens riddled with sexually transmitted diseases.
Colombian women in relationships they thought were monogamous are the country’s fastest-growing population being infected with HIV. While many have remained quiet, the lack of medical care has compelled others to bring lawsuits.
Fadiga Kady manages to get the AIDS story out to nation that would prefer not to face the epidemic. She also founded an international organization to educate and assist pregnant women who might need HIV/AIDS care.
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.
As the numbers of women with HIV continue to rise, the myths and stigmas about women continue to create enormous obstacles to preventing new HIV and AIDS cases.
South Africa’s teachers, most of whom are women, are among the casualties of the country’s AIDS crisis. After years of denying the problem, the government now says it’s time to intervene.
Frustrated by the obstacles of developing a vaccine to prevent AIDS, scientists are creating new weapons they hope will one day offer women more control over their sexual health. Their most serious obstacle: money.
In South Africa, where more people are affected by AIDS than anywhere else in the world, rape and other violence is putting women at increased risk of contracting the disease.
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