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In the News

• The GRACE Study: Insights Into Gender, Race, And HIV Therapy

  Enrollment of women in clinical trials of new anti-HIV drugs is extremely low, representing only about 15% of all treatment-experienced patients. For women of color it is even lower. Why women, and especially women of color...
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• Call for gender-focused HIV care

  Battling HIV-AIDS is a full time job for a British Columbia woman who's had the disease for more than 25 years and struggles to find care in a province with "seriously inadequate" health-care resources for women living with the illness.
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• Ban Calls On Member States to Press Ahead With Efforts to Realize AIDS-Free World

  Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today called on Member States to press ahead with efforts to realize the vision of a world free of AIDS, as the United Nations General Assembly met to consider progress in the global struggle against the epidemic.
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• Liberia: UN Commits to support HIV prevention

  Eleven United Nations Agencies operating in Liberia have committed their willingness to continue their support for the provision of treatment, care for HIV&AIDS prevention in the country.
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• Intimate partner violence associated with subsequent HIV infection in Uganda

  Ugandan women who have been subject to violence from a sexual partner are more likely than other women to go on to acquire HIV, according to a large, longitudinal study from the Rakai cohort, published in the May 15 issue of AIDS. Women who had experienced more severe forms of violence, more frequently, or over a longer period of time had greater risks of HIV infection.
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What's New

Organization of American States adopts bold resolution on HIV and human rights

The Organization of American States (OAS)—the world's oldest regional mechanism comprising 35 independent states of the Americas—has adopted a bold new Resolution on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights of People Vulnerable to or Living with or Affected by HIV. The Resolution calls for specific measures to promote gender equality and address the needs of women, adolescents and girls, noting the strong inter-relation between gender-based violence as both a cause and consequence of HIV.

 

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Women's Stories

A Positive Approach to Violence: An Interview with Indonesian HIV Advocate, Baby Rivona