Post by Nguyen Hai Anh on Nov 20, 2003 14:26:23 GMT 7
9 November, 2003
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1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS
2. DG CROSS-TOPIC SPECIAL: "HIV/AIDS: The Social and Economic Impact of an Epidemic."
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1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: A growing number of studies by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS have documented the disproportionately high HIV infection rate among girls and young women, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Gender-based violence makes women vulnerable to infection with HIV/AIDS, and women living with HIV/AIDS are vulnerable to gender-based violence. Our new highlight features reports and studies by various international organizations tackling the issue of violence and HIV/AIDS. Check the new highlight at: www.developmentgateway.org/gender
2. CROSS-TOPIC SPECIAL: "HIV/AIDS: The Social and Economic Impact of an Epidemic." Worldwide, more than 28 million people have died from HIV/AIDS since it was first diagnosed in the early 1980s. Current statistics, however, do not reveal the broader social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS. The new Gateway Cross-Topic Special "HIV/AIDS: The Social and Economic Impact of a Pandemic," coinciding with World AIDS Day on December 1, looks at the epidemic through the perspective of 12 topic pages. Resources about diminished workforce, reduced household income, strained government health budgets, and weakened healthcare delivery systems are presented as well as those about the disease's impact on vulnerable groups such as orphans, farmworkers, women, youth, and people living in post-conflict societies. Salvator Niyonzima, UNAIDS Advisor for the Greater Involvement of People Living with or affected by HIV and AIDS (GIPA), defines HIV-related stigma and its manifestations, proposing actions to address it.
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1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: Gender-Based Violence and HIV/AIDS
2. DG CROSS-TOPIC SPECIAL: "HIV/AIDS: The Social and Economic Impact of an Epidemic."
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1. NEW HIGHLIGHT: A growing number of studies by the World Health Organization and UNAIDS have documented the disproportionately high HIV infection rate among girls and young women, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. Gender-based violence makes women vulnerable to infection with HIV/AIDS, and women living with HIV/AIDS are vulnerable to gender-based violence. Our new highlight features reports and studies by various international organizations tackling the issue of violence and HIV/AIDS. Check the new highlight at: www.developmentgateway.org/gender
2. CROSS-TOPIC SPECIAL: "HIV/AIDS: The Social and Economic Impact of an Epidemic." Worldwide, more than 28 million people have died from HIV/AIDS since it was first diagnosed in the early 1980s. Current statistics, however, do not reveal the broader social and economic impact of HIV/AIDS. The new Gateway Cross-Topic Special "HIV/AIDS: The Social and Economic Impact of a Pandemic," coinciding with World AIDS Day on December 1, looks at the epidemic through the perspective of 12 topic pages. Resources about diminished workforce, reduced household income, strained government health budgets, and weakened healthcare delivery systems are presented as well as those about the disease's impact on vulnerable groups such as orphans, farmworkers, women, youth, and people living in post-conflict societies. Salvator Niyonzima, UNAIDS Advisor for the Greater Involvement of People Living with or affected by HIV and AIDS (GIPA), defines HIV-related stigma and its manifestations, proposing actions to address it.