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News and information about HIV in women. The heightened vulnerability of women and girls to HIV is closely linked to gendered power relations and social, legal, economic and cultural inequalities.

Women

Marriage is a risk factor for HIV infection in Malawi

News
8 April 2013
Treatment for women

Long-term suppression of viral load and sustained CD4 cell increase reduce risk of cervical HPV infection for HIV-positive women

News
1 April 2013
Women

UNAIDS Executive Director calls on Côte d'Ivoire to redouble HIV response efforts

Editor's pick
UNAIDS
28 March 2013
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Study: In Malawi lifelong antiretroviral treatment for expectant moms “translates into saving more than 250,000 maternal life years”

Editor's pick
Science Speaks
27 March 2013
Women

Lawyer fights 'widow sex' tradition in Malawi

Editor's pick
CNN
22 March 2013
PrEP

New Advocacy Group Wants to Improve Feasibility of PrEP for U.S. Women

Editor's pick
HIVandHepatitis.com
21 March 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

Media mis-reporting HIV rate among SA schoolgirls - true rate is 12.7 percent

Editor's pick
Africa Check
21 March 2013
Women

U.N. body agrees on women's rights policy, skirting sexual politics

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Reuters
17 March 2013
Epidemiology & behaviour

South Africa: '28% of schoolgirls are HIV positive'

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The Sowetan
15 March 2013
Women

Sex work, violence and HIV: experience from rural Karnataka

Editor's pick
Open Democracy
14 March 2013
Women

NEW YORK: 30% of N.Y. HIV Women Get 'Late' Diagnosis

Editor's pick
CDC National Prevention Information Network
13 March 2013
PrEP

Mitchell Warren: Listening to Women's Voices on HIV Prevention

Editor's pick
Huffington Post
12 March 2013
Women

HIV and women over 50: 'I've had to make this journey almost entirely alone'

Editor's pick
The Guardian
12 March 2013
Women

In the Arab world, women aren't supposed to talk about sex - let alone enjoy it. But that might be changing.

Editor's pick
The Independent
11 March 2013
Contraception

Contraceptive injections and HIV infection risk – a public health conundrum

News
10 March 2013
Women

UN must not backtrack on women's reproductive rights

Editor's pick
The Guardian
8 March 2013
Women

Link between violence and HIV must be made explicit, say African ministers

Editor's pick
The Guardian
8 March 2013
Diabetes

Every year of statin therapy boosts diabetes risk 10% in US HIV cohort

Editor's pick
EATG / NATAP
7 March 2013
PrEP

After VOICE trial, question remains: What were women telling researchers?

Editor's pick
Science Speaks
5 March 2013
PrEP science

VOICE trial's disappointing result poses big questions for PrEP

News
4 March 2013
Human rights

AIDS Accountability International: South Africa to investigate Zimbabwe’s ‘politically motivated rape’

Editor's pick
AIDS Free World
2 March 2013
Sexual transmission

Variations in genital shedding of HIV during menstrual cycle large enough to impact on risk of sexual transmission

News
25 February 2013
Contraception

Marge Berer on Depo-Provera and informed choice

Editor's pick
BMJ Group blogs
20 February 2013
Condoms & lubricant

Condoms used in one-in-four heterosexual encounters in the US

News
17 February 2013