Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse its effects cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights. It documents the latest information on the current HIV/AIDS pandemic, the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls, and the ways that discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.
This report concludes that women are bearing the brunt of the HIV/AIDS epidemic and that strategies to reverse its effects cannot succeed unless women and girls are empowered to reclaim their rights. It documents the latest information on the current HIV/AIDS pandemic, the devastating and often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls, and the ways that discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic.