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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 CoalitionFriday, 01 September 1995
>>Available in PDF at the links below
Summary: Set of 3 factsheets on reproductive health and rights, sexual health, and sexual rights, prepared for the Fourth World Conference on Women, 9 pages total.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionWednesday, 01 January 1992
>>Available from IWHC
Summary: Edited by Adrienne Germain, King K. Holmes, Peter Piot, and Judith N. Wasserheit (New York: Plenum Press, 1992). Fourteen papers from 1991 conference, "Reproductive Tract Infections in Women in the Third World: National and International Policy Implications," co-sponsored by IWHC and the Rockefeller Foundation and held at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center. Provides a pioneering international literature review, country case studies, and policy analysis (395 pages).
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 01 January 1991
>>Available in PDF / Available in Chinese, French, Portuguese, and Spanish
Summary: By Ruth Dixon-Mueller and Judith N. Wasserheit (New York: International Women's Health Coalition, 1991). Reviews data on reproductive tract infections (RTIs) and makes recommendations for action by policy makers and service providers (18 pages).
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 28 October 2008
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Written By Whitney WelshimerFriday, 01 August 2008
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 01 July 2008Recent research suggests that male circumcision may be a cost-effective means of reducing HIV infection rates, especially in generalized epidemics where more than one percent of the population is living with HIV/AIDS.
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 10 June 2008
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionSunday, 01 June 2008
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Written By International Women's Health CoalitionTuesday, 01 January 2008From new commitments to sex education programs to progress on securing a women's right to abortion, these ten developments show that women's health was a priority concern in 2007, and will continue to require our attention and dedication in 2008.