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GCWA: Jantine Jacobi, new head of Gender and AIDS at UNAIDS

Michel Sidibé, the Executive Director of UNAIDS, has appointed Dr Jantine Jacobi to head the Gender and AIDS Team in the UNAIDS Secretariat. She will also provide leadership within the Secretariat for the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS.

24/03/2010

World / Policy: Campaign fights growing Aids rate in women

The UN Aids agency and singer and Aids activist Annie Lennox unveiled a five-year plan to review a 1994 platform to achieve equality for women. The platform was adopted by 189 countries at the historic Beijing conference and included a call for action to prevent HIV in women and treat them.

03/03/2010

World / Policy: UNAIDS takes action to empower women and girls to protect themselves from HIV

UNAIDS, together with celebrated artist and activist for women and HIV, Annie Lennox, has launched an Agenda for Accelerated Country Action for Women, Girls, Gender Equality and HIV (2010–2014), which has been developed to address gender inequalities and human rights violations that continue to put women and girls at risk of HIV infection. The five-year action plan was launched at a high-level panel during the 54th meeting on the Commission on the Status of Women, being held in New York until 12 March. It calls on the UN system to support governments, civil society and development partners in reinforcing country actions to put women and girls at the centre of the AIDS response, ensuring that their rights are protected.

02/03/2010

Kenya / Prevention-PMTCT: Missed opportunities for HIV testing of pregnant women

Kenyan women are becoming infected with HIV during pregnancy at very high rates, and repeat testing prior to delivery or at the earliest possible opportunity after birth should be encouraged in order to reduce mother to child transmission, Kenyan researchers reported last week at the Seventeenth Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in San Francisco.

25/02/2010

Central America / Epidemic: El sida se desplaza hacia los jóvenes y las mujeres en Centroamérica

La epidemia del sida se está desplazando rápidamente hacia las personas más jóvenes y las mujeres en Centroamérica, por lo que urge programas educativos y de prevención, informaron expertos que preparan un congreso regional sobre el tema. En la mayoría de los países del istmo, las nuevas infecciones con el virus se están dando en personas entre los 15 y 24 años y hay un aumento importante del número de mujeres afectadas.

24/02/2010