Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis (Executive Summary)

This is an executive summary of the "Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis" report, which 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. The report 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.