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Psycho-what? Services for Women Are Disappearing

March 10, 2011 - 1:39pm (Print)

In a disturbing trend, women-centered HIV services are being quietly defunded. This means HIV-postive women have fewer places to go for peer support, mental health and other critical services.

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Morning Roundup: Arizona Seeks to Ban Race and Sex Selection

by Beth Saunders, RH Reality Check

February 2, 2011 - 10:34am (Print)

Arizona looks at banning race and sex selection abortions, despite the fact that it makes no sense, young women infected with HIV are more likely to become pregnant and have complications, hearings scheduled on the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act," and women are a separate species - an unexplainable one at that.

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Smart Investments in AIDS and Global Health: Building on What Works

by amfAR

December 1, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

The response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic has transformed

global health financing and programming, demonstrating the

potential to make substantial progress against diseases in low-

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Federal HIV Prevention Officials Speak Freely on Science, Marginalized Groups, and Funding

by Julie Davids and David Munar, CHAMP and AIDS Foundation of Chicago

August 27, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

There were tantalizing hints at this week's HIV prevention conference that CDC may be ready to seek significant changes in federal prevention policy and programs.

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VIDEO: Coming Out as HIV-Positive

by La'Shaun Brown

August 25, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

I pray that one day the world will see us no differently than anyone else, and that for once, they can set aside the ignorance, and just accept us for who we are.

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Not Vectors, But People: The Need to Move from PMTCT to Comprehensive Care for Women with HIV

by Maria deBruyn and Marion Stevens, Ipas and the Health Systems Trust

August 17, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

A truly gender-based approach to women and HIV/AIDS must approach women and girls both as persons independent of their societal roles and in relation to their multiple roles and needs.

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Uganda to Reintroduce Female Condoms

by Serra Sippel, Center for Health and Gender Equity

June 29, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

The Ugandan government plans to reintroduce and promote the female condom this fall, where it may give women another tool for safer sex negotiation and protection.

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Gates Foundation Program to Fight HIV in India Wasted, Says Forbes India

by Emily Douglas

June 17, 2009 - 3:17pm (Print)

Forbes India today evaluates Avahan, the $258 million Gates Foundation HIV prevention initiative on the ground in India. And the program doesn't fare well.

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In Search of Justice: Bail Granted for HIV+ Pregnant Woman

by Laura McTighe, Institute for Community Justice

June 17, 2009 - 8:00am (Print)

A judge puts an HIV-positive pregnant woman in prison based solely on his concern for her unborn child, implicitly questioning her ability to protect her and her baby's health.

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Behind Bars for Being Pregnant and HIV-Positive

by Margo Kaplan, Center for HIV Law and Policy

June 10, 2009 - 7:00am (Print)

While some states do criminalize HIV exposure, a U.S. District Judge does more than this - he imprisons a woman for the mere possibility that she might transmit HIV in the future.

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