| BACKGROUND BRIEFS |
| Global
Coalition on women and AIDS |
Overview of the Global Coalition, including
its aims, approach, principles, focus, structure and funding.
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| Preventing
HIV infection in girls and young women |
Compelling evidence demonstrates an urgent
need for prevention strategies that reach girls and women.
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| Violence
against women and AIDS |
Violence against women is a major human
rights and public health problem worldwide. It increases
female vulnerability to HIV. |
| Securing women's property and inheritance rights |
Around the world, issues of access to, ownership
of, and control over land, housing, and other property
are enshrined in many national constitutions and international
human rights documents. Despite the proliferation of property
and inheritance laws and rights, women and girls - particularly
in the developing world - are denied this right. |
| AIDS
treatment—A focus on '3 by 5' |
The ‘3 by 5’ initiative, WHO and its partners
will develop principles and mechanisms to promote and
provide equitable access of antiretroviral treatment and
care services to women, girls and children including marginalized
groups of people living with HIV and AIDS. |
| AIDS
and girls' education |
Education is a key defence against the spread
and impact of AIDS. Girls who stay longer in school delay
their first sexual experience, have increased HIV prevention
knowledge and higher condom use for those already sexually
active, and greater understanding of HIV testing. |
| Care,
women and AIDS |
HIV and AIDS have significantly increased
the care burden for many women. Poverty and poor public
services have also combined with AIDS to turn the care
burden for women into a crisis with far-reaching social,
health and economic consequences. |
| Microbicides,
women and AIDS |
Women need methods to protect themselves
from HIV that they can control. One of the most promising
prevention options on the horizon is microbicides. |
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