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Vietnam / Prevention - PMTCT: Campaign targets passage of HIV from mother to child
The Ministry of Health yesterday launched a campaign on prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in an effort to ease the increasing impact of the disease in Viet Nam. Speaking at the launch ceremony held in Ha Noi, Deputy Prime Minister Truong Vinh Trong called for all of society, especially women, to take part in the campaign on preventing children from getting HIV from their mothers. Trong also called on international groups and non-governmental organisations to help Viet Nam gradually limit the spread of HIV/AIDS, with the goal of halting HIV/AIDS transmission by 2015 and ensuring a
China / Prevention - PMTCT: Intervention cuts mother-infant HIV transmission dramatically: study
Anti-retroviral treatment and other intervention measures could decrease the risk of HIV transmission from mother to infant by more than 80 percent, a new study in China has found. The study, conducted by the National Center for AIDS/STD Control and Prevention, found nearly 29 percent of newly born children could be infected by HIV, the AIDS virus, if their HIV-carrying mothers failed to take any preventive steps during pregnancy, at childbirth and in the course of feeding their child.This compared with an infection rate of only 4.4 percent among babies whose mothers had taken preventive meas
USA / Gender Policy: A New Gender Agenda
Hilary Rodham Clinton staked her claim as an advocate for global women’s issues in 1995, when, as first lady, she gave an impassioned speech at a United Nations conference in Beijing. As secretary of state, she pushed to create a new position, ambassador at large for global women’s issues, and recruited Melanne Verveer, her former chief of staff, to fill it. And she has drawn attention to women at nearly every stop in her travels, most recently on an 11-day visit to Africa, during which, among other things, she went to eastern Congo to speak out against mass rape.
India: HIV women get yellow cards
In a significant initiative, the district administration here has distributed Antodaya cards to 62 HIV positive widows. This could come as a big relief for them, especially at the time of drought. Under the Antodaya (yellow) card scheme, 35kg of grain (rice and wheat), 1.120kg of sugar and three litres of kerosene oil will be provided to the beneficiaries by the supply department.
South Africa / Prevention: Will Paying Girls To Attend School Reduce HIV Risk?
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has been awarded a $2.7 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study if monetary incentives and community mobilization can help prevent young women in South Africa from becoming infected with HIV. Audrey Pettifor, Ph.D., an assistant professor of epidemiology at UNC's Gillings School of Global Public Health, is the study's principal investigator.
Kenya / Prevention-PMTCT: National guidelines on mother/child HIV transmission launched
Health Minster Beth Mugo Wednesday launched the latest national guidelines on mother to child HIV/AIDS transmission at a Nairobi hotel. ugo said the move would help the country keep in pace with new scientific advances in HIV/Aids prevention measures. "I register my appreciation to all stake holders who played a role in designing, developing and printing the new guidelines," she said.
Sierra Leone / Gender : 'Country Leads in Gender Promotion' Says Unifem Deputy Regional Director
Deputy regional director of UNIFEM, Maxime Houinato has confirmed that Sierra Leone was number one in promoting gender equality in Africa. He told journalists at the handing over ceremony of four vehicles and three motorbikes to the ministry of social welfare gender and children's affairs provided by UNIFEM at the Atlantic hall, national stadium in Freetown. He said the vehicles were not the meeting but to show happiness about how the ministry of social welfare was improving. "We are happy to support this ministry since it has improved on the gender policies in the country.
Ghana / Prevention: Ghanaian Women Rejects Female Condom
Women are limited in their ability to negotiate the use of the male condom, even in the face of all the forms that HIV/AIDS epidemic has moved into, a form in which married women and women in stable relationships are at the most risk.
Violence: The link between Violence Against Women & HIV/AIDS
The term "violence against women" means any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or psychological harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life. Violence against women is a manifestation of historically unequal power relations between men and women, which have led to domination over and discrimination against women by men and to the prevention of the full advancement of women, and that violence against women is one of the crucial socia
Address by deputy president of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, during Sanac women's sector: HIV prevention for women and girls summit
I am pleased to address this event today, which seeks to find workable ways of preventing HIV. The struggle against this pandemic is intrinsically honourable to the extent that its purpose is to save human life. Chairperson, reducing the incidence of HIV and redressing the vulnerability of women to HIV is and should be at the forefront of our individual and collective efforts. It is a daunting challenge that has thwarted economic growth, overburdened our health care systems and brought personal tragedy to our people. I am very pleased to say that Government and its partners are taki
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