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Women represent more than half of all people living with HIV worldwide. The combination of social and political inequalities, lack of access to sexual and reproductive health and rights, and severe poverty renders women and girls disproportionately vulnerable to the virus. Despite this, there are few programs aimed at curbing the pandemic's spread that accurately reflect the realities of women's lives. Additionally, the same factors that make women vulnerable to HIV put them at risk for other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) including human papillomavirus (HPV), the most common STI in the world and a cause of cervical cancer.
Browse our resources on HIV/AIDS and STIs below.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionSaturday, 01 April 2000
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionWednesday, 01 March 2000
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionSaturday, 01 January 2000
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionSaturday, 01 January 2000
Summary: By Adrienne Germain(Critical Issues in Global Health, edited by C. Everett Koop, M.D.,Sc.D., Clarence E. Pearson, MPH, and M. Roy Schwarz, M.D. SanFrancisco: Jossey-Bass, 2000). Invited chapter lays out policy priorities for the 21st Century that address the continuing human threats to women's reproductive and sexual health (8 pages)
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 30 November 1999
Summary: Statement delivered by Adrienne Germain, President, International Women's Health Coalition, before the Thirty-Eighth Session of the United Nations Commission on Population and Development, New York, April 4, 2005 (2 pages).
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 30 November 1999Your contribution will help us support activists like Esther Endalé (right), pictured here outside the Maroua, Cameroun, office of ALVF (The Association for the Struggle Against Violence Against Women), a group co-founded by Esther and five colleagues in 1991. Click here to meet more of IWHC's colleagues worldwide.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionMonday, 01 November 1999
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Summary: By Françoise Girard (Journal of Women's Health and Law, Vol. I, No. 1, November, 1999, Toronto and Vancouver: Butterworths). Analyzes the significance for women's health of the UN's five-year review of implementation of the Programme of Action agreed in the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD). The author outlines and discusses the significance and impact of the original ICPD agreements and of the new commitments made by governments in 1999 to hasten implementation of the Programme of Action (14 pages).
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 12 October 1999
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionFriday, 01 January 1999
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionThursday, 01 January 1998
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