| Perpetuating our global AIDS pandemic, gender inequality is killing women. Multiple forms of discrimination bar women from education and healthcare necessary to curb AIDS. Citing World Healthcare Organization statistics, Inés Alberdi of UNIFEM states, “AIDS is the leading killer of women of reproductive age in poor and middle-income countries.”* For many women around the world, economic empowerment is requisite to lessen AIDS’ impact. Such empowerment gives women greater access to prevention and treatment programs.
You can make a difference. Share information about this global plight, and encourage donations to the UN Trust Fund for Women. These funds support programs that promote women’s rights and endeavor to diminish the spread of HIV/AIDS among women and girls; please click here to donate. To find out more about taking action to counter discrimination against women, click here. Become involved in ways that touch many lives and create a healthier world.  *Read the full article Women’s Rights Are at the Core of Addressing the AIDS Pandemic written by Inés Alberdi, Executive Director of UNIFEM. |
International Community of Women with HIV/AIDS 
December 1st, 2009 | Tags: 
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