World AIDS Day focusses on women, girls and HIV/AIDS
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World AIDS Day is an annual campaign to raise awareness of HIV AIDS worldwide and stimulate appropriate remedial action. It was first observed on December 01, 1988 following a recommendation by a summit of world health ministers.
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In Indiana, 21 percent of the people with HIV - the virus that leads to AIDS - are women, while 12 percent of those with AIDS are female.
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Children with AIDS are dying needlessly because of a lack of suitable and adapted medicines. On World AIDS Day, December 1, MSF is calling on the World Health Organisation (WHO), UNICEF and national governments
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com New York Bureau. (New York City) On Wednesday, the 17th annual World AIDS Day will be observed around the world but in many communities special programs began today.
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November 24 - World AIDS Day 2004 will be commemorated around the globe on Wednesday, December 1. World AIDS Day celebrates progress made in the battle against the epidemic - and brings into focus remaining challenges.
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TOMORROW is World Aids Day, and this is the 17th year this annual event has taken place to raise awareness of one of the most serious global, national and local public health issues.
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&quot;We urgently need a long-term approach to the HIV epidemic that addresses the specific needs of women. Women In developing countries are increasingly more vulnerable than men to HIV and AIDS.
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The day of December 1 is celebrated all over the world as the World AIDS Day. The holiday was marked for the first time in 1988. Organizers have chosen the motto &quot;Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS&quot; as the theme for this year&#39;s campaign.
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Having a day proclaimed is an old publicity gimmick but most such days do not have lethal overtones. World AIDS Day - today â-ruthfully is a publicity device, but one that is badly needed.
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More African women than men contract HIV, and, worldwide, women reportedly account for one-half of the infections. The International Center for Research on Women
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Many World AIDS Day observances around the world today have focused on the need to protect women and girls from HIV who are contracting the virus at an alarming rate.
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The Global Coalition for Women and AIDS and the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS marked World Human Rights Day on Friday with campaigns aimed at raising awareness of the links between gender-based violence and the spread of HIV.
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Today, Dec. 1, is World AIDS Day. This annual global event is dedicated to remembering the victims of AIDS, learning more about the devastating effects of the disease and reaffirming the commitment to fight it.
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omen and girls are especially vulnerable to the AIDS virus and need to take steps so they don&#39;t get infected, speakers at a World AIDS Day event in Louisville said yesterday.
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The new epicenter of the global AIDS pandemic is Asia, and its new faces are Asia&#39;s young girls and women. This was highlighted by a recent United Nations report on HIV/AIDS and the theme
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Women and girls are the focus of today&#39;s World AIDS Day in part because the number of women with HIV globally has increased to comprise nearly 50 percent of adults living with the disease
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AIDS advocates and health workers on Wednesday marked World AIDS Day by focusing on gender inequalities that can lead to an increased risk of HIV infection among women and girls, the AP/Long Island Newsday reports (AP/Long Island Newsday, 12/1).