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Filters Content type: News, Editors' picks, About HIV Topic: Women

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.

Condoms & lubricant

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

News
17 February 2013
Women

Violence as a cause or consequence of HIV for women in England

Editor's pick
Sophia Forum
15 February 2013
Women

Blame and HIV: views from Soroti town, Uganda

Editor's pick
Key Correspondents
8 February 2013
Cancer

Cervical cancer a major threat to HIV-positive women

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
8 February 2013
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Pregnancy does not increase risk of nevirapine side-effects

News
7 February 2013
The search for an HIV prevention vaccine

Vaccine group funds cervical cancer immunizations for poor

Editor's pick
Reuters
4 February 2013
Bone & joint problems

Co-infection with hepatitis B or C is a risk factor for reduced bone mineral density among women with HIV

News
28 January 2013
Combatting stigma

Living with Stigma and Ignorance: HIV on the Rise in Belarus

Editor's pick
Belarus Digest
11 January 2013
Women

How Men in South Africa Are Trying to Stop Violence Against Women

Editor's pick
The Atlantic
7 January 2013
Contraception

Combined oral contraception has less effect on nevirapine than efavirenz levels

News
21 December 2012
Epidemiology & behaviour

Tajikistan: Concerns at HIV Rise Among Women

Editor's pick
UNHCR
19 December 2012
People & personal stories

We never thought we could get HIV. We were wrong.

Editor's pick
Daily Mail
17 December 2012
Epidemiology & behaviour

South Africa: HIV infection rates among pregnant women increase in four provinces

Editor's pick
Times LIVE
11 December 2012
Women

Happy World (Ignore Women and) AIDS Day!

Editor's pick
Huffington Post
6 December 2012
HIV testing programmes & uptake

Uganda: How to Ask Your Man for HIV Test

Editor's pick
AllAfrica
5 December 2012
Women

Battling HIV, Mexican women reclaim sexuality

Editor's pick
AFP
3 December 2012
Global health initiatives

Robin Gorna: Is an HIV free generation an achievable aim?

Editor's pick
BMJ
1 December 2012
Violence

South Africa: No Stop to HIV Infections Unless Gender Violence Addressed

Editor's pick
AllAfrica
27 November 2012
Women

Low levels of vitamin D associated with poorer long-term CD4 cell gains in women who start HIV treatment late

News
27 November 2012
HIV treatment

New fixed-dose combination pills measure up to Atripla - corrected version*

News
20 November 2012
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Lack of understanding of treatment benefits may discourage women with HIV from having children – and could increase the risk of vertical transmission

News
16 November 2012
Women

MSF presses Papua New Guinea on rampant sexual violence

Editor's pick
Bangkok Post
16 November 2012
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Manchester study finds link between increased premature birth rate and HIV

News
15 November 2012
Cancer

HPV vaccine may benefit HIV-infected women

Editor's pick
NIH press release
9 November 2012