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Explore our site to find valuable resources, cutting-edge research, and breaking news on the gender equality dimensions of HIV/AIDS. You can contribute by uploading your own materials, networking with fellow colleagues, and locating an event near you.

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In the News

  • Zimbabwe: Women Blast MDC-T's Femai

    Women's organisations and HIV and AIDS activists yesterday blasted MDC-T Senator for Chikomo, Morgan Femai, for his "misguided and clue-less" utterances that women should always have bald heads, shun bathing and dress shabbily as part of measures to curb the spread of HIV. Read full article here.

  • South Africa: Art Fights Cervical Cancer in HIV+

    Antiretroviral therapy reduces the incidence of pre-cancerous cervical lesions in HIV-positive women, South African investigators reported in the online edition of AIDS. Read full article here.

  • Tanzania: Gender Based Violence Campaign Launched in Serengeti

    ON May 5, hundreds of people from all walks of life gathered at Maburi village in Serengeti district of Mara Region to witness the official launch of a fresh programme aimed at cutting down gender based violence and the spread of HIV/AIDS in the area. Read full article here.

  • Namibia: Volunteers Empower Young Women

    Mariental — The Karas and Hardap regions face a high rate of teen pregnancy and gradually the spread of HIV/AIDS - and have to deal with armies of unemployed school dropouts. Read full article here.


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What's New

The 56th Session on Commission on the Status of Women (CSW)

 

The fifty-sixth session of the Commission on the Status of Women took place at United Nations Headquarters in New York  from Monday, 27 February to Friday, 9 March 2012, and on 15 March 2012.

 

The Commission considered a  Report of the Secretary-General on Women, the girl child and HIV and AIDS, and adopted a resolution on the subject requesting a report for the fifty-eighth session of the Commission in 2014.

 

In 2013, the Commission will review progress in the implementation of it Agreed Conclusions on The equal sharing of responsibilities between women and men, including caregiving in the context of HIV/AIDS, which was considered in  2009 as the priority theme.


Women's Stories

"I am..." Women Living with HIV

picture captionI am Mariana Iácono, from Buenos Aires, Argentina. I’m a social worker and student of history. I love swimming in the sea if there are no jellyfish. I love reading and practicing sports. I work in education in two high-schools and I’m also a HIV/AIDS activist in RAMVHIS (Network of Women Living With AIDS in Argentina). I’m a member of Fundación Buenos Aires SIDA and I represent them in a INADI forum. I have a mother and a father who are lovely, really lovely, a female dog who is my daughter, and a love who fills my heart. Living with HIV, at this stage of my diagnosis —9 years, I’m 28— is not a problem anymore. Every day I fight against the stigma and discrimination against people living with HIV. 

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