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Women Shoulder Growing HIV/AIDS Burden
Rebecca Voelker
JAMA. 2005;293:281-282.
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The rapidly changing face of HIV/AIDS reflects a collection of diverse epidemics throughout the world that increasingly affects women and populations in Asia and Eastern Europe.
In a recent report, released days before World AIDS Day on December 1, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic cannot be tamed without expanded prevention programs and changes in social norms that currently deprive women of basic rights in many developing countries (http://www.unaids.org/wad2004/report.html).
"In every single region, the percentage of women among people living with HIV is going up," said Peter Piot, MD, PhD, executive director of UNAIDS. "We have to put women at the heart of the response to AIDS if we want to stop this epidemic."
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An increasing proportion of people living with HIV worldwide are women and girls, particularly in countries in Eastern Europe, Asia, and . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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HALF ARE WOMEN
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Sophorolipids, Microbial Glycolipids with Anti-Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Sperm-Immobilizing Activities
Shah et al.
Antimicrob. Agents Chemother. 2005;49:4093-4100.
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