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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

South Africa: Girl brides abducted as fabled HIV cure

Editor's pick
CNN
28 May 2012
Adherence

HIV treatment breaks lead to drug resistance in the female genital tract

News
24 May 2012
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

In HIV Prevention, Protect the Mothers: A Message to the World Health Assembly 2012

Editor's pick
RH Reality Check
23 May 2012
Women

NEPAL: HIV widows on the edge

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
17 May 2012
Cancer

HIV treatment reduces incidence of pre-cancerous cervical lesions and promotes their regression

News
10 May 2012
Undetectable viral load & treatment as prevention

Plasma, cervical HIV load often discordant in 481-woman US group

Editor's pick
International AIDS Society
9 May 2012
Sexually transmitted infections prevention

HPV vaccine completion rate among girls is poor, getting worse

Editor's pick
Eurekalert Medicine & Health
5 May 2012
Violence

Half of women at east London HIV clinic have experienced intimate partner violence

News
19 April 2012
Contraception

No significant link between injectable contraceptives and HIV risk, but questions still remain

News
18 April 2012
Condoms & lubricant

Douching does not seem to increase STI risk

News
18 April 2012
Epidemiology & behaviour

PAPUA NEW GUINEA: Violence and belief in magic raise risk of HIV for women

Editor's pick
IRIN Plus News
18 April 2012
PrEP science

Contraceptive requirement may have compromised FEM-PrEP study

News
16 April 2012
Cardiovascular disease

Does CMV underlie the increased risk of cardiovascular disease in patients with HIV?

News
16 April 2012
Pregnancy and vertical transmission

Treatment with a ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor during pregnancy increases risk of preterm delivery

News
10 April 2012
Cancer

High Rate of Precancerous Anal Lesions Among HIV-Positive Women

Editor's pick
AIDSMeds
4 April 2012
Women

Helene D. Gayle: How Saving Groups Empower Women in Uganda

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Huffington Post
3 April 2012
Women

Obama Establishes Working Group on HIV, Women and Girls

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Poz magazine news
3 April 2012
Condoms & lubricant

Female condom prevents HIV transmission

Editor's pick
UPI
30 March 2012
Experiences of stigma

Rwanda: 'Women With HIV Denied Right to Inherit'

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AllAfrica
17 March 2012
Treatment outcomes & life expectancy

Black Women Twice as Likely to Die of AIDS in U.S. Compared to White HIV-Positive Women

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AIDSMeds
15 March 2012
How HIV works

Superinfection: second HIV infections happen as often as first ones

News
10 March 2012
Sexual transmission

Infection with M. genitalium may double African women's HIV risk

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News Medical
9 March 2012
Epidemiology & behaviour

HIV rates in US black women much higher than thought

Editor's pick
Los Angeles Times
9 March 2012
Women

Release of UK Consortium policy briefing on HIV, Women and Girls

Editor's pick
UK Consortium on AIDS and International Development
8 March 2012