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Sex Workers Speak Out On HIV

Published date: 
14 May 2009
Sex workers in Pakistan have spoken about the difficulties of protecting themselves against HIV/AIDS at a National Consultation on HIV and Sex Work meeting organised by the National AIDS Control Programme and the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).

'Were there no women on the DA list?'

Published date: 
15 May 2009
This is an open letter to Helen Zille from deputy director of Gender Links Kubi Rama.

RIGHTS: Against Sexual Violence: Solidarity Among African Women

Published date: 
2 May 2009
Increased cases of rape and sexual abuse of women and girls is closely associated with armed conflict and its aftermath in Africa.

Uganda Tests Strategies for Cervical Cancer

Published date: 
26 Apr 2009
Ugandan health officials are mulling the results of two pilot projects involving the HPV vaccine that test different ways to reach the nation's girls. One project adds the vaccine to existing public health programs; the other is based in schools.

'Sharing The Caring Of A Nation'

Published date: 
5 Mar 2009
The Botswana theme for this year's International Women's Day (IWD), 'Sharing the Caring for the Future', stresses the need for men to join women to equally share the care burdens that are normally borne by women.

With Obama In Power, Whitehouse.gov Now Backs Abortion Rights, ‘Gay Rights’

Published date: 
29 Jan 2009
"President Obama campaigned as a social liberal, and—if his website is any indication—he intends to deliver on several controversial issues, from supporting same-sex civil unions and the repeal of the federal Defense of Marriage Act to overturning the military’s Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy to being a staunch supporter of abortion rights."

Women Die While Goals Not Achieved

Published date: 
26 Jan 2009
More than half a million women over the world every year die during pregnancy or childbirth, and over 90 per cent of these largely preventable deaths occur in developing countries, a United Nations Development Fund for Women (Unifem) report revealed last week.

AIDS-AFRICA: Some Signs of Progress

Submitted by Eva.Ramokobala on Tue, 13/01/2009 - 13:15
Publisher: 
Inter Press Service News Agency
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http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/nota.asp?idnews=45367
Author: 
Zahira Kharsany
Published Date: 
2009
Abstract: 
The latest UNAIDS Report estimated that 33 million people around the globe are living with HIV; 22 million in Sub-Saharan Africa alone. Around 2.7 million new HIV infections occurred worldwide in 2007. However, encouraging new data suggests there have been significant gains in preventing new infections in several African countries with high prevalence rates.
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AIDS-AFRICA: Some Signs of Progress

Domestic Violence, Gender Top Family Ministry's 2008 Agenda

Published date: 
6 Jan 2009
Meetings in the provinces between the Government and its social partners, to analyse and discuss issues related to domestic and intra-family violence, as well as women participation in decision making bodies in the country, topped the agenda of the Ministry of Family and Women Promotion in 2008.

Activists Slam World's ‘Grotesque Indifference’ To DRC

Published date: 
17 Dec 2008
International lust for the enormous mineral and resource riches of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) abetted by international indifference has turned much of country into a colossal ‘rape mine' where more than 300,000 women and girls have been brutalised, activists say.
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