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     <title><![CDATA[Missed opportunities for HIV testing of pregnant women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:44:15 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[El sida se desplaza hacia los jóvenes y las mujeres en Centroamérica ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 14:39:16 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Thai Women with HIV Break Silence, Confront Stigma]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Veena Panudej makes a living in the night like so many other women and men in this quiet eastern corner of Thailand. They work under the light of the stars in rubber estates spread beyond this city close to the Cambodian border. By sunrise, Veena takes stock of what she has finished in her nocturnal job, tapping rubber trees for the white sap that is collected in coconut shells attached to the slender trunks of each tree.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 14:50:22 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA["Women's Decade": Greater Attention to Implementation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fears that the impact of the global economic meltdown would affect funding to various development areas have been rife. Already, several governments have cut their budgets for HIV and AIDS and bilateral and multilateral funding partners have done likewise.Gender, which already receives the lowest budget allocation in most African countries, will suffer more.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 13:36:34 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Hay una feminización de la epidemia del sida]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[En Centroamérica la epidemia de VIH/Sida está afectando principalmente a la población más joven. Para el 2005, los gobiernos de los países centroamericanos firmaron un convenio en San Salvador para tratar de frenar la epidemia.

Pero según la Red Centroamericana de personas con VIH (Redca), algunos países han avanzado, otros se han estacando y otros han ido hacia atrás en el proceso de lucha contra el virus, sobre todo en aspectos claves como prevención y educación sexual y reproductiva.

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     <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 12:29:37 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[‘Poverty Still Has a Woman’s Face’]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Women and poverty still share an uncomfortable spot on the development matrix of countries across Asia-Pacific that are struggling to end deprivation, according to the newly launched third joint report of the United Nations and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:24:27 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Tlou chairs Global Task Force on Women and AIDS]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[University of Botswana Lecturer and Former Minister of Health, Professor Sheila Dinotshe Tlou, has been asked by several international organisations to use her expertise and experience to assist with health problems at global level.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:32:31 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Male circumcision and risk of male-to-female HIV-1 transmission: a multinational prospective]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Male circumcision reduces female-to-male HIV-1 transmission risk by approximately 60%. Data
assessing the effect of circumcision on male-to-female HIV-1 transmission are conflicting, with one observational study among HIV-1-serodiscordant couples showing reduced transmission but a randomized trial suggesting no short-term benefit of circumcision.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:25:28 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Male-circumcision-and-risk-of-male-to-female-HIV-1.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Politique de lutte contre le VIH/sida en France : les recommandations de la Cour des comptes ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[En France, le rapport public annuel 2010 de la Cour des comptes a été présenté mardi 9 février par Alain Pichon, doyen des présidents de chambre, et par Claire Bazy-Malaurie, rapporteur général. Un chapitre fait le point sur l’épidémie de VIH/sida, dénonçant le caractère marginal des dépenses de prévention et de dépistage et la faiblesse du pilotage de la politique de lutte contre l’infection par le ministère de la santé.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 14:39:02 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The feminization of the HIV epidemic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The overlap between injecting drug use and sex work is a driving force in the so-called “feminization” of Asia’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. Between 70 and 80 percent of women injecting drug users (IDUs) are involved in some kind of sex work, according to Ratna Mardiati, a former director of the Drug Dependence Hospital (RSKO) in East Jakarta with 14 years’ experience dealing with injecting drug users.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:49:56 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Health Minister Appeals to Women to use Condoms]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Minister of Health, Hon. Rudyard Spencer, has appealed to Jamaican women to get tested for HIV, and to take more responsibility for their sexual behaviour by using a condom during sexual encounters. The call came as the nation observes Safer Sex Week, February 7-14, under the theme, "Smarter Women Always Buy, Carry and Use Condoms."]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 13:45:17 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Impact of Antiretroviral Therapy on Incidence of Pregnancy among HIV-Infected Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Cohort Study ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[ART use is associated with significantly higher pregnancy rates among HIV-infected women in sub-Saharan Africa. While the possible behavioral or biomedical mechanisms that may underlie this association require further investigation, these data highlight the importance of pregnancy planning and management as a critical but neglected component of HIV care and treatment services.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:42:10 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Linking sexual and reproductive health and rights and HIV prevention is key says Dutch AIDS Ambassador Marijke Wijnroks]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Netherlands’ AIDS Ambassador Dr Marijke Wijnroks recently visited UNAIDS Secretariat to meet with Michel Sidibé UNAIDS Executive Director and senior management of the Joint Programme. We took the opportunity to ask Dr Wijnroks about her role as her country’s AIDS Ambassador, and discussed some of the key issues in the Dutch approach to the global issue of HIV.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:20:34 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[VIH/sida, desde una perspectiva de género]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[La mitad de las personas que viven con el VIH en todo el mundo son mujeres. Según cálculos, sólo en África subsahariana el 60 por ciento de la población femenina es seropositiva. Las jóvenes entre 15 y 24 años tienen más probabilidades de adquirir la infección que los varones de su misma edad.
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     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 15:16:48 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Aids cresce entre jovens atinge principalmente mulheres e homossexuais]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A incidência de AIDS entre os jovens de 13 a 19 anos atinge principalmente homossexuais e mulheres. Nesta faixa etária, a prevalência de contaminação é feminina, com 60% dos casos. De 2000 a junho de 2009 foram registrados no país 3.713 casos da doença em meninas, contra 2.448 em meninos. Entre os adolescentes, 39,2% dos casos entre os meninos foram resultado de relações homossexuais.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 07 Feb 2010 13:24:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Realizan pruebas ràpidas de VIH/Sida a mujeres embazadas]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[En el Centro de Ambulatorio de Prevención y Atención en SIDA e Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual, se están realizando las pruebas rápidas de VIH a las personas que han tenido relaciones sexuales de riesgo. El año pasado se realizaron 1917 pruebas ràpidas a mujeres embarazadas, resultando positivas dos, siendo la prevalencia con este grupo de 0.1 por ciento por cada embarazada; tambièn se hicieron 2334 a la poblaciòn abierta, de las cuales resultaron positivos 32, por lo que la prevalencia es de 1.37 por ciento por cada dos mil.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:22:46 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Realizan-pruebas-rapidas-de-VIH-Sida-a-mujeres-emb.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Survey reveals AIDS misconceptions persist among women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Years of public awareness campaigns on HIV-AIDS or the Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome have not diminished prevalent misconceptions about the virus or the ailment even among well-educated women, a recent government survey found.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:37:25 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[To Keep the Baby or Not - the HIV-Positive Woman's Dilemma]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While the risk of HIV-positive mothers transmitting the AIDS virus to their unborn children has been tremendously reduced through evolving medical interventions, research shows that many women still opt for abortion.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:47:14 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Cresce o número de meninas portadoras do vírus HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Há dois anos, para cada dez meninas entre 13 e 19 anos que se descobriam portadoras do vírus HIV, existiam oito meninos. No ano passado, essa proporção passou para seis adolescentes do sexo masculino a cada dez do feminino. É de olho nesse aumento do índice de jovens contaminadas pelo HIV que o Ministério da Saúde irá focar a campanha publicitária de prevenção à Aids do Carnaval deste ano na faixa etária entre 13 e 19 anos - a única, entre adolescentes e adultos, em que o número de mulheres contaminadas supera o de homens.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:44:59 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Women Around the World Pledge Solidarity to Haiti]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Huairou Commission and GROOTS International would like to send a message of solidarity and support to Haitians who have faced unimaginable circumstances throughout the last week.  As the photos and news reports make clear, Tuesday's earthquake has brought extraordinary loss to an already impoverished nation.  All of us at the Huairou Commission want to express our commitment - through resources and action-that we will help to invest in rebuilding their lives and communities both in the short and long term.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:42:08 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Women in europe website launched]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Women in Europe and Central Asia preparing for Vienna 2010 and beyond is a new website, launched in January 2010, primarily - but not exclusively - for women across Europe and Central Asia who are working on sexual and reproductive health issues affecting women and girls across this region. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 13:27:53 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Women-in-europe-website-launched.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Menos contagio del VIH de madre a hijo]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Mediante un trabajo colaborativo entre instituciones públicas y privadas, el 74% de las embarazadas –portadoras del VIH/sida– de nuestro país evitaron contagiar el mal a sus hijos, mediante una profilaxis oportuna.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:46:50 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Menos-contagio-del-VIH-de-madre-a-hijo.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Expectant mothers to take forced HIV tests]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[HIV tests will soon become compulsory for all expectant mothers as the Health Ministry carries out a Shs 2.3 billion merger of Sexual Reproductive Health (RH) and HIV programmes this fiscal year. According to Dr. Collins Tusingwire, a Senior Medical Officer in-charge of integrating RH and HIV services, the integration has reached 80% of all health facilities in the country.
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     <pubDate>Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:11:10 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Dokolo Women Hindering Fight Against HIV, Says Report  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dokolo District faces an upsurge in mother-to-child HIV/Aids due to inadequate sensitisation of expectant mothers on preventions, measures, a new report states. Health experts, who conducted the study, discovered that up to 35 per cent of expectant mothers who are potential carriers of the virus disregard preventive mechanisms and information offered at government hospitals, exposing hundreds of unborn children to the risk of being infected with HIV/Aids.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 10:32:51 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Dokolo-Women-Hindering-Fight-Against-HIV--Says-Rep.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[2010 Red Ribbon Award Launched!  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The call for nominations for the 2010 Red Ribbon Award is now open.  As in the past, the award honors and recognizes exceptional grassroots leadership in responding to the AIDS epidemic. Nominations are accepted from December 1st, 2009 until February 28th, 2010. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:09:29 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[2010 Red Ribbon Award Launched!  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The call for nominations for the 2010 Red Ribbon Award is now open.  As in the past, the award honors and recognizes exceptional grassroots leadership in responding to the AIDS epidemic. Nominations are accepted from December 1st, 2009 until February 28th, 2010. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:09:29 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Fund for gender equality announces more than US$9 million in grants to advance women's economic and political empowerment worldwide]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Gender Equality Efforts by Civil Society and Governments in 26 Countries to Be Supported 
New York — The new UNIFEM-managed Fund for Gender Equality announced its initial allocation of more than US$9 million to 27 initiatives in 26 countries today. The recently-established Fund, a US$68 million multilateral initiative, is designed to advance innovative programmes which focus on women’s economic and political empowerment at local and national levels. It is currently funded by the Governments of Spain and Norway.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 10:38:38 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Women who start ART in pregnancy do just as well as non-pregnant women  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[HIV-infected women who start antiretroviral treatment during pregnancy have similar or better immunological outcomes in the first two and a half years on treatment as non-pregnant women as well as men in the MTCT-Plus Initiative covering seven countries in sub-Saharan Africa and Thailand from 2003-2006 reported Patricia Toro and colleagues in the journal AIDS. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:17:16 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Diez veces mayor en mujeres la atención de ITS/VIH-SIDA ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[De acuerdo a los registros estadísticos del Instituto Nacional de las Mujeres (INMUJERES) siguen siendo los hombres los más propensos a contraer el VIH-SIDA, en específico los que tienen sexo con otros hombres, sin embargo de acuerdo a las estadísticas del Instituto de Salud del Estado de Aguascalientes (ISEA) para los jóvenes entre 15 y 24 años de edad prevalece la atención para las mujeres en cuanto a Infecciones de Transmisión Sexual (ITS) y VIH casi diez veces por encima de ellos en cuanto a los datos hasta el 28 de octubre del 2009.]]></description>
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     <title><![CDATA['Less noisy' female condom proves a hit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Ten months after being re-launched, a new brand of female condom has proven popular among a test group of Ugandan women, according to a study.

FC2 was launched in February; the government stopped distributing the original female condom, FC1, in 2007 on the grounds that women had complained it was smelly and noisy during sex.
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     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:48:57 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Study shows young women would rather get Aids than fall pregnant ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When it comes to choosing emergency contraception, young Kenyan women trust their schoolmates. They also trust the chemist, the Internet and their boyfriends.The only people they don’t trust are their parents. One word explains why a 25-year-old woman we’ll call Jane lowers her face in shame when explaining why she had unprotected sex with a man she had known for only a month.
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     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:31:49 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Vulnerability of women in the northern regions, major cause of HIV/AIDS  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Research, carried out by Action Aid Ghana (AAG), an anti-poverty Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), has revealed that Violence Against Women" (VAW) is one  of the major causes of HIV/AIDS in the three Northern Regions of the country.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:05:13 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[South Asians confront AIDS among monogamous women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[South Asian women from three spheres--journalism, politics and advocacy-- recently planned a coordinated attack on HIV-AIDS among women. Their focus is on transportation, property rights and education.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 15:41:48 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Nouvelles infections au sida: 50% des cas diagnostiqués chez les jeunes]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[En 2008, 49.940 personnes étaient infectées par le Vih/Sida au Sénégal. Les jeunes font partie de la couche la plus touchée par la pandémie. Ce qui justifie la campagne de sensibilisation pour réduire la transmission du Vih chez les jeunes.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 Dec 2009 17:04:40 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Nepal: Widows break tradition - wear red]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Widows like Adhikari are humiliated; organisations who have been working with single women are shocked and women rights activists are outraged.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 10:41:21 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Recent Development in Microbicide Studies: Statement on Early Generation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Dr. Zeda Rosenberg, CEO of the International Partnership for Microbicides, issued the
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     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 14:04:01 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Microbicide hopes dashed again ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A four-year clinical trial involving nearly 10,000 women in East and Southern Africa has found that the vaginal microbicide gel, PRO 2000, is safe but not effective at preventing HIV infection. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Dec 2009 10:00:20 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Propone la Secretaría de Salud incrementar compra de condones femeninos]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[El secretario de Salud, José Ángel Córdova Villalobos, propuso al Consejo Nacional para la Prevención y Control del VIH/sida (Conasida) incrementar el volumen de compra de condones para mujeres, con el propósito de contrarrestar la feminización de la epidemia y por una cuestión de equidad de género.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 10:35:46 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Alarm as half of women with HIV abused]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Half of Kenyan women living with HIV/Aids have been physically abused in the past year, according to a new study that highlights the worrisome link between the scourge and violence against women.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:58:08 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[60 percent of HIV/AIDS victims in country 'are women']]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Chairman of the Bauchi State Agency for the Control of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis/Leprosy and Malaria (BACATMA), Rilwanu Muhammad, has said of about three million people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, 60 per cent are women just as majority of them live in the rural areas thereby making it very difficult for them to access adequate medical attention.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Dec 2009 15:52:37 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Breastfeeding with maternal antiretroviral therapy or formula feeding to prevent HIV postnatal mother-to-child transmission in Rwanda.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The aim of the study was to assess the 9-month HIV-free survival of children with two strategies to prevent HIV mother-to-child transmission in a nonrandomized interventional cohort study.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:59:52 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Antiretroviral therapy in antenatal care to increase treatment initiation in HIV-infected pregnant women: a stepped-wedge evaluation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The objective of this study was to evaluate whether providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) integrated in antenatal care clinics resulted in a greater proportion of treatment-eligible women initiating antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy compared with the existing approach of referral to antiretroviral therapy. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:58:37 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Microbicides Development Programme: Engaging the community in the standard of care debate in a vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza, Tanzania.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[HIV prevention research in resource-limited countries is associated with a variety of ethical dilemmas. Key amongst these is the question of what constitutes an appropriate standard of health care for participants in HIV prevention trials. This paper describes a community-focused approach to develop a locally-appropriate standard of health care in the context of a phase III vaginal microbicide trial in Mwanza City, northwest Tanzania. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:53:48 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Comparing couples’ and individual voluntary counseling and testing for HIV at antenatal clinics in Tanzania: A Randomized Trial.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This study aimed to determine the acceptance and effectiveness of couples voluntary counselling and testing as compared to individual voluntary counselling and testing. 1,521 women attending three antenatal clinics in Dar es Salaam were randomized to receive individual voluntary counseling during that visit or couples voluntary counselling with their husbands at a subsequent visit. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:32:43 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 through breastfeeding by treating mothers with triple antiretroviral therapy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: the Mitra Plus study.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The main aim of this study was to reduce breast-milk transmission of HIV-1 by treating HIV-1- infected women with antiretroviral therapy (ART) during breastfeeding. Mitra Plus was an openlabel, nonrandomized, prospective cohort study. HIV-1-infected pregnant women in Dar es Salaam were treated with zidovudine (ZDV) + lamivudine (3TC) + nevirapine (NVP). NVP was later replaced by nelfinavir for mothers with CD4 cell counts >200 cells per microlitre or with adverse reaction to NVP.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 16:28:32 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS decreasing among expectant mothers]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The HIV/AIDS prevalence among expectant mothers in Namibia is decreasing since 2002, Prime Minister Nahas Angula said this week.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 16:16:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[When things fall apart]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alice Welbourn charts her own personal experiences of what she learnt about HIV, about herself and about others during her early years of living with her diagnosis. She reflects on how traumatic experiences can also be ones of growth and self-knowledge – and how HIV has much to teach us all. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:31:12 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Registration open for Women Deliver 2010 conference]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Women Deliver global conference, held in Washington DC on June 7-9, 2010, will focus on the theme: Delivering solutions for girls and women. Girls and women are the solution; not the problem. And by bringing together experts and creative thinkers in not only maternal health and mortality but also human rights, gender, HIV and AIDS, education, micro-enterprise, sexual and reproductive health, including family planning, and more, we can show the world that it’s time to deliver for women and that it is, in fact, a good investment.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:35:25 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Se duplican contagios de Sida en las mujeres]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Por años, los programas de prevención de VIH/Sida se enfocaron a los grupos de riesgo y se descuidó el heterosexual, lo que propició que cada vez más mujeres sean infectadas, advirtieron autoridades de Salud. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:22:38 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Commit, Act, Demand: We CAN End Violence Against Women ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The elimination of all forms of violence against women and girls is a top priority for the World YWCA. In nearly 70 countries, YWCAs provide services for women facing violence and abuse. For many women, the YWCA represents a safe space. From shelters and safe houses run by YWCAs in the USA, Canada, Zambia and Sri Lanka to campaigns to prevent trafficking championed by YWCAs in Finland, Belarus, Albania and Samoa. National and local YWCAs around the world are committed to seeing an end to violence against women. Through advocacy and services, YWCAs are working to ensure women and girls in their communities can live lives free of violence.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:17:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[UNAIDS is fully committed to stop violence against women and girls. The response to HIV provides an opportunity to reduce intimate partner and sexual violence and develop comprehensive responses to gender-based violence and HIV prevention within and beyond the health sector.  ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:49:56 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[On this 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, we can applaud the fact that the issue of violence against women and girls is no longer treated as simply a woman's concern. Thanks to the persistent and dedicated efforts by women’s rights activists in all parts of the world, it is now a human rights issue, a peace and security issue, and an issue of urgent concern to both men and women]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:27:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Eight-year trend shows new HIV infections down by 17%—most progress seen in sub-Saharan Africa]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[According to new data in the 2009 AIDS Epidemic Update, new HIV infections have been reduced by 17% over the past eight years. Since 2001, when the United Nations Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS was signed, the number of new infections in sub-Saharan Africa is approximately 15% lower, which is around 400,000 fewer infections in 2008. In East Asia, new HIV infections declined by nearly 25% and in South and South-East Asia by 10% in the same time period. In Eastern Europe, after a dramatic increase in new infections among injecting drug users, the epidemic has leveled off considerably. However, in some countries there are signs that new HIV infections are rising again.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 15:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Ban launches new network to combat violence against women ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today marked the 10th anniversary of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women by launching a Network of Men Leaders, a major new initiative bringing together current and former politicians, activists, religious and community figures to combat the global pandemic.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:45:13 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Sports for girls are more than play in Bangladesh, they’re tool for progress (even survival)]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Sport is a tool for social, political and economic equality. In Bangladesh — where girls face routine physical violence, child marriage, and are denied the same access to education as boys — that couldn’t be more critical. Consider that the country’s Demographic and Health Survey showed that 36 percent of women believe that “wife beating is justified.” Clearly, the power of sport to build physical strength and self-worth among schoolgirls is about more than play. It’s about survival.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:49:58 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Launch of the AIDS Accountability Scorecard on Women ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As World AIDS Day (1 December) approaches, AIDS Accountability International is releasing the first ever global scorecard analyzing country responses to the specific needs and vulnerabilities of women in the context of the AIDS epidemic;  The AIDS Accountability Scorecard on Women - Are governments keeping their promises?  ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 14:58:35 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Martin Savidge interviews Nazneen Damji, the program manager of gender equality at the United Nations Development Fund for Women, about the troubling issue of women and AIDS.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:25:30 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An estimated 41 percent of Ugandan women who would like to stop having children have no access to family planning services 
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     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:47:04 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV-positive women need family planning services, study shows ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[An estimated 41 percent of Ugandan women who would like to stop having children have no access to family planning services 
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     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:47:04 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[South African women less fruitful]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[According to the latest South Africa Survey of the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR), there were an average of 2.7 live births per 1000 women between 2001 and 2006 and this was projected to decline to 2.4 between 2008 and 2011.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:50:25 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[City women fare poorly on AIDS awareness meter]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A majority of women in Chandigarh failed to clear the general awareness test conducted by the department of community medicine, GMCH-32. 12% of the respondents stated that AIDS was curable, while 52% did not know it could lead to other serious diseases.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:55:27 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Las mamás portadoras de VIH/SIDA piden leche de fórmula para sus bebés  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[La vida de los bebés de madres portadoras del VIH/SIDA depende de un cuidado adecuado. El primer paso, un parto asistido adecuadamente y el segundo no amamantar al recién nacido, pero brindarle todos los nutrientes necesarios a través de leche de fórmula.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:45:58 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Las-mamas-portadoras-de-VIH-SIDA-piden-leche-de-fo.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Safety and pharmacokinetics of dapivirine delivery from matrix and reservoir intravaginal rings to HIV-negative women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Vaginal microbicides for the prevention of HIV transmission may be an important option for protecting women from infection. Incorporation of dapivirine, a lead candidate nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor, into intravaginal rings (IVRs) for sustained mucosal delivery may increase microbicide product adherence and efficacy compared with conventional vaginal formulations.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:33:37 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Safety-and-pharmacokinetics-of-dapivirine-delivery.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Maraviroc concentrates in teh cervicovaginal fluid and vaginal tissue of HIV-negative women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The authors compared single- and multiple-dose maraviroc exposures in cervicovaginal fluid (CVF) and vaginal tissue (VT) with blood plasma (BP) and quantified maraviroc protein binding in cervicovaginal fluid. 
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     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:29:54 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Maraviroc-concentrates-in-teh-cervicovaginal-fluid.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Gender asymmetry in healthcare-facility attendance of people living with HIV/AIDS in Burkina Faso.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Anthropological research in Burkina Faso indicates that more HIV-positive women than HIV-positive men are attending care facilities for people living with HIV and accessing antiretroviral medicine.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 14:23:35 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Gender-asymmetry-in-healthcare-facility-attendance.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Más de la mitad de la población mundial infectada con el virus del VIH son mujeres  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Las mujeres representan más de la mitad de los 33 millones de casos de VIH/Sida que existen en todo el mundo, con 17 millones de infectadas, procedentes en su mayoría de Europa Occidental y países en vías de desarrollo, y con edades comprendidas entre los 15 y 49 años, según explicó la directora del Centro de Estudio de Salud Sexual y VIH del Hospital Universitario de Homerton (Reino Unido), Jane Anderson, con motivo de su presencia en la XII Conferencia Europea sobre Sida, que se celebra esta semana en la ciudad alemana de Colonia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:10:52 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Mas-de-la-mitad-de-la-poblacion-mundial-infectada-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[El cambio físico, el principal temor de las mujeres con VIH ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Las mujeres con VIH en España fingen -y sueñan- a diario que no pasa nada, que todo marcha bien, que el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) nunca se apoderó de sus organismos. Se mienten a sí mismas y a los demás para evitar el rechazo social, una de las cosas que más temen. Así lo han confesado un centenar de mujeres seropositivas de todo el país que se han dado cita en Benidorm, en el II Foro Nacional para Mujeres con VIH, respaldado por CESIDA, la coordinadora estatal de VIH-Sida.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:02:39 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/El-cambio-fisico--el-principal-temor-de-las-mujere.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV is the leading cause of death to women around the world]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Interview with the Director of Gender and HIV, International Center for the Research on Women (ICRW) Dr. Katherine Fritz by Kyra Phillips. Transcript of CNN Newsroom.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:33:02 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/HIV-is-the-leading-cause-of-death-to-women-around-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Women: 'CEDAW is UNIFEM'S entry point ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Andrea Borde interviews Joanne Sandler, Deputy Executive Director, UNIFEM]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:43:22 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Women---CEDAW-is-UNIFEM-S-entry-point.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Violence against women and HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[From 27-29 October the World Health Organization (WHO), on behalf of the UNAIDS family, convened a working group of experts and practitioners to review evidence around the links between violence against women and HIV, as well as programmatic interventions and strategies which address the intersections of violence and HIV. The aim of the meeting was to make policy and programmatic recommendations for national and international AIDS programmes as well as to develop an agenda for future programme development, evaluation and research efforts based on a review of evidence from different interventions. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:13:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Violence-against-women-and-HIV.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Is There a Gender Gap in the HIV Response? Evaluating National HIV Responses From the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS Country Reports ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Declaration of Commitment of the United Nations General Assembly Special Session on HIV/AIDS (UNGASS), in 2001, sets out several policy and programmatic commitments that pertain to women and the gender aspects of the HIV epidemic. Some of them are general, whereas others are more specific and include time-bounded targets. This article summarizes data on policies and strategies affecting women and men equity in access to antiretroviral treatment and other HIV services, as reported by countries but do not address other issues of gender, such as men having sex with men.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 10:05:47 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Is-There-a-Gender-Gap-in-the-HIV-Response--Evaluat.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Hay que facilitar que las mujeres se protejan contra el sida]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hay dos cosas que la ghanesa Kate Adoo-Adeku tiene claras: que "el sida no se combate sólo con medidas sanitarias. La educación es un factor clave", y que todavía no hay un método de protección pensado para las mujeres, aunque éstas son la mayoría de las infectadas por el VIH en el África subsahariana, la región del mundo que concentra a un 70% de los afectados. Y alrededor de esas dos ideas clave se mueve. Es catedrática de Educación para Adultos en la universidad de Ghana y licenciada en Filosofía -"pon lo de catedrática, que me ha costado mucho", insiste-, directiva de la Sociedad de Mujeres con Sida de África (SWAA), y ha creado su propia ONG, People and Development (PAD), que financia con su sueldo. Una idea de la importancia del reto lo acabade dar la OMS. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:51:39 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[WHO calls for action beyond the health sector to improve the health of girls and women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This is a report on women and health – both women’s health needs and their contribution to the health of societies. Women’s health has long been a concern for WHO but today it has become an urgent priority. This report explains why. Using current data, it takes stock of what we know now about the health of women throughout their lives and across the different regions of the world.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:34:49 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[UNAIDS, ASEAN join hands to support work on gender and HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[UNAIDS and the ASEAN Foundation signed an agreement in Bangkok to support work on gender and HIV in the Asia Pacific region]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:08:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Housewives more prone to be AIDS victims]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Reports by the district health societies revealed that around 45 women in the city were detected as HIV positive during April to October, out of which 42 were housewives. Figures indicated that 19 (out of the total) housewives detected as HIV positive belonged to the age group 21-30 followed by 16 women in the age group 31-40. Fifteen infected women, however, were known to be from slum areas.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:56:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Reassurance for HIV-positive women about short-term risk of bone loss ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Short-term rates of bone loss are similar in younger HIV-positive and HIV-negative women, US investigators report in a study published in the online edition of the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:41:03 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Reassurance-for-HIV-positive-women-about-short-ter.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Por cada dos hombres con VIH ya hay una mujer infectada en Colombia, revelan la ONU y Minprotección]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[El Fondo de Población de las Naciones Unidas y el Ministerio de la Protección Social llevaron a cabo dos estudios (uno cualitativo, entre población femenina en general, y el otro cuantitativo, entre trabajadoras sexuales), para establecer cuáles son las condiciones que hacen más vulnerables a las colombianas frente a esta enfermedad]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 09:13:22 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Por-cada-dos-hombres-con-VIH-ya-hay-una-mujer-infe.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Empowering women to protect themselves: Promoting the female condom in Zimbabwe]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[When AIDS first emerged in the 1980s, it mainly affected men. Today, according to UNAIDS figures, women account for about half of the 33 million people living with HIV worldwide, and 60 per cent of those infected in sub-Saharan Africa. Most of these women acquired the virus through heterosexual intercourse, often through unprotected sex with their husbands or long-term primary partners.

According to research carried out in Kenya and Zambia in 2004 , marriage increases the frequency of sex and hinders a woman’s ability to negotiate condom use or abstain from sex. Married women are often afraid to ask their husbands to use a condom – or to use one themselves – since this implies that they suspect their husbands of infidelity.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:47:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Multiple-infection and recombination in HIV-1 within a longitudinal cohort of women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Templeton and colleagues set out to determine the rate of multiple infection in a longitudinal study of 58 HIV-1 positive participants from The Women’s Interagency HIV Study with a richer sampling design than previous direct studies, and they investigated the role of recombination and sampling design on estimating the multiple infection rate. 40% of their sample had multiple HIV-1 infections]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:39:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Early coital debut and associated HIV risk factors among young women and men in South Africa]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Data from a nationally representative survey that included 7,692 sexually active South African youth aged 15-24 were used to assess characteristics related to sexual debut and to respondents’ first sexual partner.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 17:23:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Cuba: Enfrentar la violencia, de cara al VIH/sida]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Enseñar a las mujeres a identificar y enfrentar la violencia de género es imprescindible a la hora de desarrollar labores de prevención frente al VIH/sida.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:46:57 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Cuba--Enfrentar-la-violencia--de-cara-al-VIH-sida.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Multiple-infection and recombination in HIV-1 within a longitudinal cohort of women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Templeton and colleagues set out to determine the rate of multiple infection in a longitudinal study of 58 HIV-1 positive participants from The Women’s Interagency HIV Study with a richer sampling design than previous direct studies, and they investigated the role of recombination and sampling design on estimating the multiple infection rate. 40% of their sample had multiple HIV-1 infections. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:37:38 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Lower risk of resistance after short-course HAART compared with Zidovudine/single-dose Nevirapine used for prevention of HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Antiretroviral resistance after short-course regimens used to prevent mother-to-child transmission has consequences for later treatment. Directly comparing the prevalence of resistance after short-course regimens of highly active antiretroviral therapy and zidovudine plus single-dose nevirapine (ZDV/sdNVP) will provide critical information when assessing the relative merits of these antiretroviral interventions. In a clinical trial in Kenya, pregnant women were randomized to receive either ZDV/sdNVP or a short-course of highly active antiretroviral therapy through 6 months of breastfeeding. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[A case series of 104 women infected with HIV-1 via blood transfusion postnatally: high rate of HIV-1 transmission to infants through breast-feeding]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Liang and colleagues investigated transmission of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) via breast-feeding by 104 Chinese mothers who acquired the infection through blood transfusion postnatally.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:30:34 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/A-case-series-of-104-women-infected-with-HIV-1-via.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Intimate partner violence perpetration, standard and gendered STI/HIV risk behaviour, and STI/HIV diagnosis among a clinic-based sample of men.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Data from a survey of men aged 18-35 recruited from three community-based health clinics in an urban area (n=1585) were analyzed to assess the prevalence of intimate partner violence perpetration and relations of such violent behaviour with both standard (e.g., anal sex, injection drug use) and gendered (e.g., coercive condom practices, sexual infidelity) forms of sexual risk, and STI/HIV diagnosis.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:25:33 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Intimate-partner-violence-perpetration--standard-a.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Questioning gender norms with men to improve health outcomes: Evidence of impact.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[This article describes a review of 58 evaluation studies of programmes with men and boys in sexual and reproductive health (including HIV prevention, treatment, care and support); father involvement; gender-based violence; maternal, newborn and child health; and gender socialisation more broadly. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 09:22:02 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The link between Violence Against Women & HIV/AIDS]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[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. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:50:13 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Un anneau vaginal pour bloquer le sida]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Des essais cliniques sont actuellement en cours en Belgique afin de mettre au point un nouveau moyen de lutte contre le virus du sida: un anneau vaginal diffusant en continu un médicament antirétroviral contrer le VIH appelé la dapvirine.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 17:44:03 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Preventing Viral Transmission In Pregnancy Possible With HIV-1 Treatment]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[In what could be good news to hundreds of HIV positive pregnant women, a new study by American researchers has found that mothers receiving antiretroviral therapy (HAART) to treat HIV-1 infection have less chances of transmitting the deadly virus to their newborn child through breastfeeding.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:47:08 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Malian Women Push Condom Use to Reduce Spread of AIDS]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Women in Mali are encouraging more men to use condoms to slow the spread of the virus that causes AIDS]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:03:48 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Women vow to fight spread of HIV/AIDS]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Women in Kyenjojo district have vowed to strengthen communication with their spouses as a means to fight HIV/AIDS in their families. They said communication gaps between married couples, had led to temptations and the spread of the disease. They revealed this during a one-day workshop organised by district Woman MP Joyce Kwebiha and sponsored by the Rwenzori Association of non-governmental organisations and networks.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:58:52 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Treating HIV moms-to-be protects baby]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[U.S. researchers recommend quickly treating maternal human immunodeficiency virus to prevent transmitting the virus to newborns.

The study, published online in ahead of print in the Nov. 15 issue of The Journal of Infectious Disease, finds 82 percent of the mothers in the African country of Malawi involved in the study who received highly active anti-retroviral therapy did not infect their newborns with HIV through breastfeeding.
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     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:28:04 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Global Aids Alliance Voices Its Strong Support for the International Violence Against Women Act]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, October 21 Chairman Delahunt (D-MA) of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights and Oversight will hold a hearing titled International Violence Against Women: Stories and Solutions.  The hearing will feature testimony from UNIFEM Goodwill Ambassador Nicole Kidman, Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women's Issues Melanne Verveer, and other experts addressing violence against women worldwide.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:20:51 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Aumentan mujeres jóvenes con el VIH]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[El retrasar el inicio de las relaciones sexuales para prevenir el contagio del VIH, será el mensaje que llevarán los líderes religiosos a los adolescentes y jóvenes de Nicaragua, afirmó el doctor José Medrano, secretario Técnico de la Comisión Nicaragüense del Sida, Conisida.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:12:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Partnering with faith based organizations for virtual elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[TThe Executive Director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé took part in a meeting on prevention and early treatment of HIV and TB in young children. The conference was held at the Pontificia Universita’ della Santa Croce in Rome, from 14-16 October, and is organized by Caritas Internationalis and the Embassy of the United States of America to the Holy See.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 16:06:38 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Positive women's football beats stigma ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[

Janet Mpilime, 32, captain of the ARV Swallows, an all-woman football team based in the informal settlement of Epworth, 10km east of the Zimbabwean capital, Harare, has just led her team to a 2-1 victory over Sporting ART.
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     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:18:26 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Zimbabwe women combat HIV stigma]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Women's football is being used in Zimbabwe to confront the stigma associated with HIV and Aids. A total of 16 women's teams now take part in competitions for players who have openly declared that they are HIV positive.But despite the courage of the women involved, there has been much resistance.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:36:27 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[NIH Launches 2009 H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Trials In HIV-infected Pregnant Women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The first clinical trials to test whether the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine can safely elicit a protective immune response in pregnant women has just been launched, and a trial to conduct the same test in HIV-infected children and youth will begin mid-October 2009]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:33:35 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Soon, mandatory for pregnant women in India to undergo HIV test]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Passing AIDS from mother to child is a human rights violation and soon all pregnant women in India will have to undergo a mandatory HIV test, the parliamentary forum on HIV and AIDS said. "We want a HIV free generation. We are for testing all pregnant women for HIV so that no children can be born with the disease," Oscar Fernandes, head of the Parliamentary Forum on HIV and AIDS, told IANS. 
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     <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:29:01 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Improving PMTCT services through Millennium Villages. Today, 64 percent of Sauri's mothers have their babies at health centres  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The village project, part of the UN Millennium Project, aims to lift communities out of extreme poverty through community-led initiatives to improve health, agriculture, education, gender equality and environmental sustainability. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 13:51:51 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[New Microbicides Tests for Better Protection Against HIV   ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new phase of testing of microbicides, a possible new HIV prevention tool for women, gets underway in Rwanda. The research is being carried out and tests will begin before the end of the year for the gel microbicide. It is done by Project Ubuzima, an international NGO which promotes reproductive health and HIV/AIDS prevention, working closely with the Ministry of Health.
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     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:27:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Target the married in fight against HIV/AIDS]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Men and Women in a marriage are expected to be faithful to each other. But is that the reality on the ground? Being faithful is just a fallacy among many men and women. Reports have shown that 40 to 60% of HIV positive persons have HIV negative spouses and these are at 10 to 12% HIV transmission risk per year (CeSSRA Public Lecture: March 6, 2009). ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:24:33 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Amélioration de l'accès des femmes et des enfants aux services de prise en charge du VIH  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Selon un communiqué de l'organisation mondiale de la santé, en 2008, l'accès des femmes et des enfants aux services de prise en charge du VIH s'est amélioré.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:20:29 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Linkages Between Education and HIV/AIDS in Girls’ Education]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Girls’ education has long been recognized as a critical tool in the fight against HIV/AIDS, in the empowerment of women and girls, and in enhancing the health and welfare of families and communities. In a severely AIDS-affected country like Zambia, education and HIV/AIDS are inseparable: the epidemic is causing many girls in poor communities to lose access to education, often compelling them to withdraw from school to look after sick parents or to care for their siblings, or the absenteeism resulting from their care-giving duties leaves them unable to keep up at school. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:36:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Study: 2 Million Babies and Mothers Die at Birth]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than 2 million babies and mothers die worldwide each year from childbirth complications, outnumbering child deaths from malaria and HIV/AIDS, according to a study released at the International Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics world congress.  The report also showed that such deaths could be easily avoided.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:40:21 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Gender and sexuality: Partners gather for global expert forum in Asia ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[To address the technical and political challenges of securing resources for these key populations while also supporting strong country ownership, the Global Fund to fight AIDS, TB and Malaria (Global Fund), UNAIDS and the Coalition of Asia Pacific Regional Networks on HIV/AIDS is hosting a global expert consultation in Bangkok, 5-7 October 2009.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:15:16 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[6 women fall prey to HIV in rural pockets]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[At least six women in rural pockets of the district have been tested HIV positive mainly due to unabated use of infected syringes by quacks.

Officials of the health department in association with Allahabad Network for People Living with HIV\Aids (ANP+) are running from pillar to post to apprise villagers about harmful affects of infected syringes. However, it is not an easy task as rural folks especially women are not ready to listen to their pleas.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:11:31 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV/Aids - Nigeria Accounts for 30 Percent Mother to Child Transmission  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nigeria still accounts for over 30% cases of mother to child transmission of the HIV/AIDS virus during and after pregnancy, despite breakthrough by experts in the field to prevent the transmission.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:07:52 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV rate among pregnant women stays high. HIV rates varied widely between districts  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The rate of HIV infection among pregnant women in South Africa has remained stubbornly high at around 29 percent for the third year running, according to government figures released on 5 October. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:01:52 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Poverty makes women vulnerable to HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Approximately 80 % of women living with HIV & AIDS in Nagaland come from families living below the poverty line.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:34:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Minister: War on Aids not lost  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[HIV prevalence among pregnant women has stabilised at around 29%, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said on Monday."The prevalence among women aged 25 and above has stabilised at high and unacceptable levels," Motsoaledi said in Pretoria, releasing the 2008 results of a survey of antenatal HIV.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 13:04:26 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Balancing on wheels of hope]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Alice Welbourn questions the role of the health authorities in caring for their own health staff with HIV]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:59:54 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV vaccine—a public good to right a global wrong ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Opinion article by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) on HIV vaccine trial in Thailand.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:52:44 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[New IOM publication on Working to Prevent and Address Violence Against Women Migrant Workers
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     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 16:29:38 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Inching towards universal access to PMTCT services ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[More than half of HIV-positive pregnant women in low- and middle-income countries continue to go without life-saving anti-retroviral medication that could prevent transmission of the virus to their unborn children, according to a new report, Towards Universal Access.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:57:58 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Female refugees from Darfur face rape, other violence daily in Chad]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Women and girls who fled the fighting in Darfur face rape and other violence daily in eastern Chad, even inside the refugee camps where they have sought sanctuary, according to a report released by Amnesty International.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:09:57 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Una mujer con VIH-Sida en Nicaragua tiene un triste destino: no es sujeto de empleo ni de financiamiento. Para Arely Cano, representante de ICW Nicaragua, lo que más preocupa ante ese panorama es que poco se está haciendo para revertirlo.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:55:36 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Couple-Centred Interventions Key in HIV Fight]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Kampala — THE findings of the modes of transmission study conducted last year indicate that incidence of HIV is rising especially among married couples aged 30-40. The study indicates that 46% of new infections were among persons involved in multiple sexual partnerships (that is those reporting two or more partners), while 43% were among married people.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 16:51:30 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Microbicides Trials Set for November  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[New HIV/AIDS prevention measures known as microbicides are set to be introduced for women, should they prove to be effective after trials. This was revealed by Evelyne Kestelyn, the Scientific Manager of Project Ubuzima, an international non-government organisation that promotes reproductive health and HIV prevention.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:46:48 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[New Initiative to Address Sexual Violence Against Girls Launched at Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting in New York]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), five United Nations organizations (UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNFPA, UNIFEM, WHO) and private sector supporters will join together later today via the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) in a new approach to address the rights violations and health impacts of sexual violence against girls. According to the World Health Organization, in 2002 approximately 150 million girls experienced some form of sexual violence with physical contact. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 12:42:07 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The gap between donors, medics and HIV/Aids patients]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While gender sensitivity and responsiveness is widely available in donor documents, the means of effecting practical gender interventions within HIV programmes remain reactive at service delivery level than purposive in policy. 

Similarly, multi-sectoral programming for HIV responses is encouraged at the national level, however the major HIV donors provide funds for the palliative side of the gender equation in HIV. However, a recent study by researchers from the Makerere University School of Public Health with support from the Centre for Global Development suggests some solutions.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:06:39 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The gap between donors, medics and HIV/Aids patients]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[While gender sensitivity and responsiveness is widely available in donor documents, the means of effecting practical gender interventions within HIV programmes remain reactive at service delivery level than purposive in policy. 

Similarly, multi-sectoral programming for HIV responses is encouraged at the national level, however the major HIV donors provide funds for the palliative side of the gender equation in HIV. However, a recent study by researchers from the Makerere University School of Public Health with support from the Centre for Global Development suggests some solutions.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:36:12 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Bruni-Sarkozy endorses UNAIDS call to virtually eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015 ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Carla Bruni-Sarkozy echoed UNAIDS call to virtually eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission by 2015 while addressing the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and leaders at a side event to the opening of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. The President of Burkina Faso Mr Blaise Compaoré and the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Mr Meles Zenawi co-chaired the event.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 12:50:14 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Bruni-Sarkozy-endorses-UNAIDS-call-to-virtually-el.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[UN-backed report outlines social, political factors driving AIDS pandemic]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Violence against women, the transition from war to peace and the criminalization of drug use and homosexuality are among the political, economic and social factors driving the HIV/AIDS pandemic, according to a United Nations-backed report released today.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:03:35 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[School-Based Outreach in KwaZulu Natal]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The province of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa is the hardest hit with HIV, with HIV prevalence rates at antenatal clinics estimated to be over 40 percent - about twice as high as the national prevalence. When combined with high rates of teenage pregnancy – about one-third of 18 and 19 year olds have already given birth - it is critical to address the social and economic factors that are contributing to this alarming situation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:41:03 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/School-Based-Outreach-in-KwaZulu-Natal.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Gender, AIDS and Development in Southern Africa]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Intervention with Microfinance for AIDS & Gender Equity (IMAGE), is designed for rural women. IMAGE combines microfinance with gender and HIV training, focusing on reducing gender-based violence and HIV prevention. In addition to the microfinance component, which is implemented by a South African NGO called the Small Enterprise Foundation, IMAGE has integrated a program called “Sister for Life” into the loan repayment meetings.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:27:59 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Gender--AIDS-and-Development-in-Southern-Africa.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Muslim Women Constitute Greater Percentage - NGO]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Muslim Women with HIV/AIDs initiative (Muswan), involved in counseling and rehabilitating women with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, has disclosed that Muslim women constitute a greater percentage of people living with HIV/AIDS in Nigeria .]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:00:17 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Muslim-Women-Constitute-Greater-Percentage---NGO-(.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Stemming mother-to-child HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The director of the Department of HIV/AIDS Prevention and Control, Nguyen Thanh Long, spoke to Suc khoe & Doi song (Health & Life) newspaper about measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 14 Sep 2009 16:12:17 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Stemming-mother-to-child-HIV.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Southern Africa: What of the female condom? ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[IRIN/PlusNews has compiled a list illustrating female condom distribution in Southern African countries.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:58:06 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Southern-Africa--What-of-the-female-condom-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[What of the female condom? Anyone seen the female condom lately? ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[IRIN/PlusNews has compiled a list illustrating female condom distribution in Southern African countries. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 16:17:26 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/What-of-the-female-condom--Anyone-seen-the-female-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Clinics lack maternal HIV services]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Fewer than two in 10 public health centres in Cambodia are equipped to help prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to babies, according to a new study.

Only 154 of 957 public health centres in the country - 16 percent - provide Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) services, according to a report published by the Treatment Monitoring and Advocacy Project of the International Treatment Preparedness Coalition.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2009 16:16:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[H.I.V. Infections in Women (Letter) ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Your suggestions for H.I.V. prevention, and those of some of the scientists you refer to, show remarkably persistent neglect of the most likely to be infected: girls and women. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:24:23 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/H-I-V--Infections-in-Women--(Letter)-Re--Hope-in-S.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Protecting Mothers, Sisters and Partners From HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Non-governmental organisations have raised concern over the lack of female condoms claiming that it undermines efforts to curb new infections.

"In South Africa more than 1 000 people are newly infected (with HIV) every day. The majority of those are women. The epidemic in this country has the face of a woman. Advocacy towards prevention has been really weak", said Nomfundo Eland, Chairperson of SANAC's women's sector. Eland was addressing the recently-held "HIV Prevention for Women and Girls Summit", in Johannesburg.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:35:03 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Protecting Mothers, Sisters and Partners From HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Non-governmental organisations have raised concern over the lack of female condoms claiming that it undermines efforts to curb new infections.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 16:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Protecting-Mothers--Sisters-and-Partners-From-HIV.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Experts call for more efforts to curb Mother-to-Child HIV transmission ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Experts currently participating in the 59th meeting of the World Health Organization (WHO) summit have called for more intervention to prevent Mother to Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT).]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 04 Sep 2009 10:35:09 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Experts-call-for-more-efforts-to-curb-Mother-to-Ch.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Drunks raping women at HIV/AIDS refuge in Papua New Guinea western highlands]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Drunken rapists are attacking women at an HIV/AIDS refuge in Papua New Guinea in "suicide" attacks, an AIDS counselling authority says. Reports published in PNG's Post Courier newspaper have highlighted a spate of abuses, intimidation and rapes of women known to be infected with HIV/AIDS in Mt Hagen, in Western Highlands Province.
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     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 15:30:03 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Drunks-raping-women-at-HIV-AIDS-refuge-in-Papua-Ne.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Recibirá Jalisco 52,500 pruebas rápidas de VIH para embarazadas ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[La Secretaría de Salud estatal (SSJ) anunció que finalmente la semana próxima se dará a conocer el fallo de la empresa que surtirá a Jalisco con 52,500 pruebas rápidas para detección del virus de inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH) en mujeres embarazadas.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:56:38 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Recibira-Jalisco-52-500-pruebas-rapidas-de-VIH-par.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Violencia contra las mujeres y VIH/Sida en cuatro países del Mercosur ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Un informe revela que no existen datos oficiales en los cuatro países del Mercosur que articulen las estadísticas de violencia de género con la feminización del VIH, algo indispensable para lograr un diagnóstico del impacto de la violencia contra las mujeres en el aumento del VIH y un análisis del VIH como facilitador/determinante de la violencia de género en los ámbitos doméstico y público, y en los servicios de salud.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 10:50:33 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Violencia-contra-las-mujeres-y-VIH-Sida-en-cuatro-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Association of Low CD4 Cell Count and Intrauterine Growth Retardation in Thailand]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Each year, intrauterine growth retardation affects 20-30 million neonates worldwide, mostly in resource-limited settings. Increased perinatal and infant mortality has been associated with intrauterine growth retardation. Some studies have suggested that HIV infection could increase the risk of intrauterine growth retardation. To confirm this hypothesis, Cailhol and colleagues examined the association between HIV-related factors and the risk of intrauterine growth retardation in Thailand.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:33:16 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Association-of-Low-CD4-Cell-Count-and-Intrauterine.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Haiti]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Deschamps and colleagues set out to describe the effectiveness of a program designed to reduce the rate of mother-to-child transmission of HIV at the primary HIV testing and
treatment center in Haiti between 1999 and 2004.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:30:17 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Prevention-of-mother-to-child-transmission-of-HIV-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Fertility Intentions and Reproductive Health Care Needs of People Living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa: Implications for Integrating Reproductive Health and HIV Care Services]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Tailoring sexual and reproductive health services to meet the needs of people living with the human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV) is a growing concern but there are few insights into these issues where HIV is most prevalent. This cross-sectional study investigated the fertility intentions and associated health care needs of 459 women and men, not sampled as intimate partners of each other, living with HIV in Cape Town, South Africa. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:29:11 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Fertility-Intentions-and-Reproductive-Health-Care-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[A Systematic Review of Factors Influencing Fertility Desires and Intentions Among People Living with HIV/AIDS: Implications for Policy and Service Delivery]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With availability of antiretroviral treatments, HIV is increasingly recognised as a chronic disease people live with for many years. This paper critically reviews the current literature on fertility desires and reproductive intentions among people living with HIV and critiques the theoretical frameworks and methodologies used.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:26:12 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/A-Systematic-Review-of-Factors-Influencing-Fertili.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Structural and Environmental Barriers to Condom Use Negotiation With Clients Among Female Sex Workers:Implications for HIV-Prevention Strategies and Policy.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Shannon and colleagues investigated the relationship between environmental-structural factors and condom-use negotiation between female sex workers and clients. They used baseline data from a 2006 Vancouver, British Columbia, community-based cohort of female sex workers, to map the clustering of hot spots for being pressured into unprotected sexual intercourse by a client and assess sexual HIV. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:19:28 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/Resource-Centre/hiv-this-week/Structural-and-Environmental-Barriers-to-Condom-Us.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Eligen al frente de una ONG contra el sida a una argentina]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[La argentina Patricia Pérez es la nueva presidenta de la Comunidad Internacional de Mujeres Viviendo con VIH (ICW). La ceremonia se realizó ayer durante la presentación de la campaña anual "Más paz menos sida" de esta asociación. Es la primera vez que una latinoamericana es elegida para ese puesto y, en su primer discurso como presidenta, Pérez denunció que "por minuto, 3 mujeres se contagian de VIH". ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 12:44:19 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Eligen-al-frente-de-una-ONG-contra-el-sida-a-una-a.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Treating cervical cancer and HIV simultaneously. Too few women are getting screened ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The HIV/AIDS epidemic may have contributed to the high incidence of cervical cancer in Zambia, where the number of cases is the second highest in sub-Saharan Africa, and HIV prevalence is one of the highest in the world. Women infected with HIV are thought to be three to five times more likely to develop cervical lesions that can become cancerous]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:47:28 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Battle in Uganda Over Female Condoms]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[On the surface, it seems like a fine idea; reproductive rights groups certainly think so. In July, the Ugandan government announced that, using cash from the U.N. Population Fund, it would distribute 100,000 female condoms in a bid to stop a resurgence of HIV/AIDS. Advocates cheered the initiative, saying it would give women more control over their own bodies. But in the weeks since, major funders of anti-HIV/AIDS programs have shown far less enthusiasm, with many deciding not to back the plan. Instead of serving as a surefire weapon against the spread of HIV, Uganda's female condoms initiative has become the latest example of the limitations faced by governments, advocacy groups and donors in the fight against the virus. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:22:37 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/The-Battle-in-Uganda-Over-Female-Condoms.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Campaign targets passage of HIV from mother to child ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Health 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]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:18:31 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Campaign-targets-passage-of-HIV-from-mother-to-chi.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Intervention cuts mother-infant HIV transmission dramatically: study  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 29 Aug 2009 10:13:49 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Intervention-cuts-mother-infant-HIV-transmission-d.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Will Paying Girls To Attend School Reduce HIV Risk?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[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]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:34:47 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Will-Paying-Girls-To-Attend-School-Reduce-HIV-Risk.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV women get yellow cards ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The district administration has distributed Antodaya cards to 62 HIV positive widows. Under the Antodaya (yellow) card scheme, 35kg of grain, 1.120kg of sugar and three litres of kerosene oil will be provided to the beneficiaries by the supply department]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 27 Aug 2009 10:28:45 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/HIV-women-get-yellow-cards.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[National guidelines on mother/child HIV transmission launched ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Health Minster Beth Mugo Wednesday launched the latest national guidelines on mother to child HIV/AIDS transmission at a Nairobi hotel]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:00:30 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA['Country Leads in Gender Promotion' Says Unifem Deputy Regional Director ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Deputy regional director of UNIFEM, Maxime Houinato has confirmed that Sierra Leone was number one in promoting gender equality in Africa]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:49:34 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Ghanaian Women Rejects Female Condom]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[ 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. However, with the rising numbers of infections among women, there is a desperate need for female initiated barrier or method to place a check on the spread of the disease.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:22:48 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Ghanaian-Women-Rejects-Female-Condom.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Address by deputy president of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, during Sanac women's sector: HIV prevention for women and girls summit]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Address by deputy president of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, during SANAC women's sector: HIV prevention for women and girls summit]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 16:21:22 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Address-by-deputy-president-of-South-Africa--Kgale.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Motlanthe:"Women are More Vulnerable to HIV"]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The majority of women remain the victims of the HIV epidemic, says South Africa's Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:11:22 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Motlanthe--Women-are-More-Vulnerable-to-HIV-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Microbicide study in November ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A microbicide study involving 11 000 women from six African countries will present its results in November, deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe told a SA National Aids Council conference on Friday.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:09:12 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Maternal HIV infection during pregnancy or breastfeeding poses substantial transmission risk for infants  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is a high risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission if a woman acquires HIV after delivery and then breastfeeds, a Chinese study published in the September 1st edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases reports. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:26:30 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Maternal-HIV-infection-during-pregnancy-or-breastf.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Vitamin D helps prevent HIV transmission from mother to child ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new study suggests that taking vitamin D supplements may help prevent the transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) from pregnant women to her child(s) and reduce child mortality.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 14:21:55 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Vitamin-D-helps-prevent-HIV-transmission-from-moth.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Patching gaps in HIV law. When HIV left them few job options, HIV-positive women formed NGO to learn skills, defend rights]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Despite a two-year-old law in Niger penalizing discrimination against people infected with HIV, seropositive women say they still receive substandard health care, are denied employment and risk losing their children because of their status.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:34:31 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Patching-gaps-in-HIV-law--When-HIV-left-them-few-j.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Lanzan campaña para prevenir sida en mujeres embarazadas]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[La Secretaría de Salud del Distrito Federal inició ayer la campaña de detección oportuna del VIH-sida en mujeres embarazadas, debido al crecimiento en la tasa de transmisión perinatal.  De acuerdo con la dependencia capitalina, las acciones preventivas se aplicarán en los 210 centros de salud y las cinco clínicas especializadas de la red hospitalaria del Gobierno del DF. Asimismo, informó que habrá coordinación con el Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia (UNICEF).]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:28:59 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Lanzan-campana-para-prevenir-sida-en-mujeres-embar.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Niger is 6.2% women ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The wife of Niger state governor, Hajiya Jummai Babangida has lamented that HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in the state is 6.2 per cent, women and youth are the most vulnerable.  Hajiya Jummai said this with dismay during the occasion of the flag off of ceremony of a comprehensive treatment site at General Hospital Gawu Babangida in Gurara local government area of Niger state.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:31:34 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[A New Gender Agenda]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Hilary Clinton discussed women’s issues and the Obama administration’s foreign policy before her 11-day visit to Africa]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:14:43 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/A-New-Gender-Agenda.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Clinic shows way in preventing mother-to-child transmission -Fasika Lemma now helps other women reduce the risk of infecting their children  ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Anti-retroviral treatment during pregnancy and after a baby's birth can lower the risk of mother-to-child transmission to below 5 percent, but in Ethiopia, one of Africa's poorest and least urbanized countries, fewer than one in 15 pregnant women with HIV has access to the treatment]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:39:18 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Cordaid HIV and AIDS award on home based care for people living with HIV]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The 2009 edition of the Cordaid HIV and AIDS Award on home based care for people living with HIV (PLHIV) is organised in cooperation with partners of the Caregivers Action Alliance’s (CAA) Organising Committee (Cordaid, HelpAge International Huairou Commission, VSO International) as well as the World YWCA.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 23:03:35 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Cordaid-HIV-and-AIDS-Award-on-Home-Based-Care-for-.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Salamander Trust launches HIV, Women and Motherhood, a multimedia project exploring the many and complex issues facing women living with HIV in relation to motherhood.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA["HIV, Women and Motherhood" is a new Salamander Trust project, based on a Strategies for Hope venture into the world of audio documentation]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 22:19:49 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Una variante genética en el cromosoma X frena el avance del sida en algunas mujeres]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Desde hace tiempo, los científicos saben que las mujeres son más vulnerables a la infección por el virus de la inmunodeficiencia humana (VIH), por motivos biológicos y sociales. Sin embargo, las diferencias de género en cuanto al progreso de la enfermedad no están claras. Unos investigadores alemanes han relacionado, por primera vez, una variante genética en el cromosoma X con un avance más lento del sida en las mujeres. Sin embargo, en los hombres con la misma variante no se ha demostrado este efecto.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 10:17:33 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/RESEARCH-SCIENCE--Una-variante-genetica-en-el-crom.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[Le Dr Etienne Nnomzo'o: "3,6 millions de condoms féminins d'ici 2012"]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Le Dr Etienne Nnomzo'o, secrétaire permanent adjoint du Comité national de lutte contre le sida, revient sur les stratégies de vulgarisation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:10:37 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Asia y los tabúes del SIDA]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Cincuenta millones de mujeres en Asia se encuentran en peligro de contraer el VIH-SIDA a través de sus parejas estables masculinas que tienen hábitos sexuales de alto riesgo

Así lo mostró un estudio difundido por el Programa Conjunto de las Naciones Unidas sobre VIH-SIDA, ONUSIDA.  Las principales causas de los contagios a las mujeres son los hombres que pagan por servicios sexuales, los que se inyectan drogas y los que tienen relaciones sexuales con otros hombres.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:50 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Papua better protecting women against HIV/AIDS]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Papua has intensified its campaign promoting the use of female condoms, after reports emerged of an increase in HIV/AIDS infections among residents.  Papua HIV/AIDS Commission (KPA) chairman Constant Karma said his organization had worked with local NGOs and large corporations to distribute female condoms to more than 265,000 women.  Recipients had included women from high-risk groups including sex workers.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:59:16 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV biggest threat to pregnant women ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The study, published in the August 2009 issue of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, found that the maternal mortality ratio was more than six times higher in HIV-positive women (776 deaths per 100,000 births) than in HIV-negative women (124 per 100,000). Nearly half of the 108 women who passed away between 2003 and 2007 died from HIV-related causes, most commonly tuberculosis and pneumonia.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 09:54:20 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV transmission in intimate partner relationships in Asia ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new report by UNAIDS, its Cosponsors and civil society partners, being released today at the 9th International Congress on AIDS in Asia and the Pacific in Bali, HIV Transmission in Intimate Partner Relationships in Asia, examines the issue of married or in long-term relationships women who are at risk of HIV infection due to their partners’ high-risk behaviours. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:24:15 GMT</pubDate>
     <link><![CDATA[http://www.womenandaids.net/News-and-Media-Centre/Latest-News/Asia---Prevention--HIV-transmission-in-intimate-pa.aspx]]></link>     
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV-blocking Gel For Women: New 'Molecular Condom' Meant To Prevent AIDS ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[ScienceDaily (Aug. 9, 2009) — University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid in the presence of semen, trapping AIDS virus particles in a microscopic mesh so they can't infect vaginal cells]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 12:14:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[No relation between in-utero exposure to HAART and intrauterine growth retardation.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The use of highly active antiretroviral treatment during pregnancy is now standard care to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in developed countries.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Disseminated bacille Calmette–Guérin disease in HIV-infected South African infants]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The authors set out to determine the population-based incidence of disseminated bacille Calmette–Guérin (BCG) disease in HIV-infected infants (aged less than 1 year) in a setting with a high burden of tuberculosis and HIV infection coupled with a well-functioning programme for the prevention of HIV infection in infants. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[HIV disease progression by hormonal contraceptive method: secondary analysis of a randomized trial.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[HIV-infected women need access to safe contraception. Stringer and colleagues hypothesized that women using depomedroxyprogesterone acetate (DMPA) contraception would have faster HIV disease progression than women using oral contraceptive pills and nonhormonal methods.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Circulating HIV type 1 drug resistance will have limited impact on the effectiveness of preexposure prophylaxis among young women in Zimbabwe.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP) with antiretroviral drugs may prevent transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The objective of van de Vijver and colleagues was to predict whether PrEP, in the presence of circulating drug resistance, will reduce the risk of infection with HIV.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Circumcision in HIV-infected men and its effect on HIV transmission to female partners in Rakai, Uganda: a randomised controlled trial.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Observational studies have reported an association between male circumcision and reduced risk of HIV infection in female partners.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[G8: 'Just invest in women']]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Investment in the health and the rights of girls and women can help economic recovery, civil society groups are telling G8 leaders.  The big issues on the G8 agenda - food security, poverty, climate change and global health - are all connected to gender equality, they say. Many think investment in women is itself a solution.  "If we invest in women, many problems will be solved," Sylvia Borren, co- chair of the Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) told IPS.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Ministry in HIV drive to protect teenager girls ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Health and Social Welfare has come up with a new strategy to fight HIV transmission, targeting old men who seduce young girls to have sex with them.  According to the ministry, girls aged between 15 to 19, are more vulnerable to HIV infection through cash and gifts they get from old men who might be infected by the virus.  National Aids Control Programme operating under the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare, is now focused on educating old men who entice young girls.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Gender Finally Moving to Forefront of AIDS Fight ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[With women now comprising 61 percent of all people infected with HIV in Sub-Saharan Africa, international donors, governments and advocacy organisations are looking more closely at the connections between HIV/AIDS and gender inequality.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[AIDS number one cause of maternal deaths.  Simple interventions could reduce maternal deaths by 46 percent]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A new maternal mortality study names HIV and AIDS as the cause of one in four maternal deaths in Zimbabwe.  The first comprehensive assessment of deaths resulting from pregnancy or childbirth revealed that 725 Zimbabwean women out of every 100,000 who deliver, die due to complications.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Burden of HIV disclosure falls on Uganda's women]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Glorius Kyarihunda was murdered by her husband at 25 years old.  The man hacked his wife of 10 years to death with a machete in Western Uganda when she returned home to retrieve her belongings.  Days earlier, Glorius' husband blamed her for his positive HIV test.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[The recent Gender Festival in Kenya has underlined the important role that male activism can play in achieving gender equality and women's empowerment.  "Men have a role to play when it comes to ensuring gender equity. It is not just a women's affair. Gender equality does not mean women are ruling over men. It only ensures a level playing field for both men and women, removing all forms of discrimination that prevail against women," Kennedy Otina, the regional programme coordinator of Men for Gender Equality Now (MEGEN) said.]]></description>
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We previously reported no benefit of early weaning for HIV-free survival of children born to HIV-infected mothers in intent-to-treat analyses. Since early weaning was poorly accepted, we conducted a secondary analysis to investigate whether beneficial effects may have been hidden.]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[An effective vaginal microbicide against sexual HIV transmission remains elusive, with requirements for adherence to appropriate application of effective, nontoxic products being a major deterrent.]]></description>
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     <description><![CDATA[This quasi-experimental, proof-of-concept study evaluated the effects of an intervention designed to help Nigerian men decrease risk for HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and unintended pregnancy.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Legal barriers to conducting public health research on methods of protection for anal intercourse were lifted in the United States in 2003 when the US Supreme Court invalidated all state antisodomy laws. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Integrated gender-based violence and HIV risk reduction intervention for South African men: results of a quasi-experimental field trial.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A quasi-experimental field intervention trial was conducted with two communities randomly assigned to receive either: (a) a five session integrated intervention designed to simultaneously reduce gender-based violence and HIV risk behaviours (N = 242) or (b) a single 3-hour alcohol and HIV risk reduction session (N = 233).]]></description>
     <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The impact of gender and income on survival and retention in a South African antiretroviral therapy programme.]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Despite the rapid expansion of antiretroviral therapy services in Africa, there are few data on whether outcomes differ for women and men and what factors may drive such variation.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 27 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Todd et al set out to compare reported numbers of sexual partners in Eastern and Southern Africa. Sexual partnership data from four longitudinal population-based surveys (1998-2007) in Zimbabwe, Uganda and South Africa were aggregated and overall proportions reporting more than one lifetime sexual partner calculated.]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <description><![CDATA[Kristan Schoultz is the new Director of the Global Coalition on Women and AIDS. The Global Coalition on Women and AIDS, initiated by UNAIDS in 2004, is a unique partnership of UN agencies, civil society groups and networks of women living with HIV who advocate for improved programming for women and girls. ]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 16:23:48 GMT</pubDate>
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