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Combatting stigma
Chinese Women With HIV Suffer Harassment and Stigma

Human rights and press freedom are crucial if China is to achieve its stated AIDS prevention goals, particularly when it comes to safeguarding women and children, a leading AIDS specialist has said.

Published
08 May 2013
From
Radio Free Asia
Behaviour change interventions
Let's be more open about the joy of sex

The discussion around the new sustainable development goals – replacing the millennium development goals – are forcing us to re-examine the issue of sexual health and rights as the key to alleviating poverty and empowering women. There is growing evidence that promoting pleasure alongside safer sex messaging can increase the consistent use of condoms and other forms of safer sex.

Published
29 April 2013
From
The Guardian
Infant feeding
For African women in the UK, formula feeding has a high social and personal cost

Although most African women living with HIV in the UK do comply with medical recommendations to avoid breastfeeding, doing so comes at a high social and personal

Published
23 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Experiences of stigma
Tyler Perry’s ‘Temptation’ Shamefully Stigmatizes People With HIV

Tyler Perry’s Temptation: Confessions of a Marriage Counselor, which was the #3 grossing movie last week, presents HIV not only as if it’s some kind of karmic punishment for female sexual misbehavior, but also as if having the virus makes a woman permanently unlovable and asexual.

Published
22 April 2013
From
RH Reality Check
Finance and funding
Fights against AIDS, sex traffic collide at high court

Two worthy goals come into conflict on Monday at the Supreme Court: preventing the global spread of HIV/AIDS and discouraging the sex trafficking of women and girls.

Published
22 April 2013
From
USA Today
Sexually transmitted infections
HPV Vaccine Showing Successes in Australia

The US government’s goal of vaccinating young girls against the human papillomavirus has been disappointing, with less than a third of teenagers having completed a full course of HPV vaccine. But now the United States can look to Australia, which six years into a successful nationwide HPV vaccination campaign has experienced a sharp decline in the number of new cases of genital warts among young men and women.

Published
19 April 2013
From
New York Times
Support for families and children
Integrating HIV care into community health workers' role is a good model for southern Africa

A community health worker model of home-based preventive care, the Philani Intervention Program (PIP), resulted in significantly enhanced maternal and infant wellbeing among pregnant women living with and

Published
18 April 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Health services and systems
Canada: New studies demonstrate inequalities in HIV care for women

Barriers undermining women’s access to HIV treatment and care must be addressed in order to reduce morbidity and mortality among HIV-positive women, and to reduce HIV transmission, according to two new studies from the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS (BC-CfE).

Published
15 April 2013
From
BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS press release
Women
Marriage is a risk factor for HIV infection in Malawi

Marriages in Malawi are characterised by such stark gender inequalities that marriage itself is a risk factor for HIV infection in women, according to qualitative research published

Published
08 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Treatment for women
Long-term suppression of viral load and sustained CD4 cell increase reduce risk of cervical HPV infection for HIV-positive women

HIV therapy that achieves long-term suppression of viral load and sustained immune reconstitution reduces the risk of persistent cervical infection with high-risk strains of human papillomavirus (HPV), research

Published
01 April 2013
By
Michael Carter
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