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GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE PUTS DAMPER ON HAITI’S HIV RESPONSE
Port-au-Prince, Haiti (2010 Features): A recent UNAIDS report points to evidence of higher HIV risks among people with a history of gender-based violence, and to higher rates of gender-based violence among those who are HIV positive. HIV prevalence rates are very high among women in Haiti and a driving factor is believed to be gender-based violence. ...More»
 
ABUSE OF YOUNG WOMEN FUELS THE HIV EPIDEMIC IN JAMAICA
Kingston, Jamaica (2010 Features): In Jamaica, the widespread incidence of violence against women, especially rape, is a matter of grave concern. Research shows a significant percentage of sex workers were violated and sexually abused as children and this has influenced their behaviour as adults. In fact, child abuse distorts natural sexual development, which should have been allowed to proceed normally. ...More»
 
JAMAICAN WOMEN FACE GREATER RISK OF HIV
Kingston, Jamaica (2010 Features): Biologically, women are at higher risk of contracting HIV than their male counterparts. In Jamaica, women's increased biological vulnerability is compounded by their subordinate social status. ...More»
 
UNEQUALLY YOKED: WOMEN HIGHLY VULNERABLE TO HIV IN PAKISTAN
Islamabad, Pakistan (2010 Features):
Thousands of women across Pakistan are at high risk of contracting sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV, because of lack of knowledge, awareness and a low social status that denies them their basic human rights. Because of the social stigma attached to the disease, HIV positive men do not tell their wives about their positive status. This power dynamic is the most basic form of violence against women. ...More»
 
WHEN THE FEAR OF VIOLENCE FUELS AIDS
Kampala, Uganda (2010 Features): Intimate partner violence related to HIV infection is growing in Uganda.  Studies conducted in Uganda’s eastern district of Pallisa revealed that violence against women living with HIV and AIDS is increasing. 100 out of 465 HIV-positive women questioned during a survey had experienced some form of violence after revealing their status to their husbands. Some of the reported violence included battering and causing grievous body injuries. ...More»
 
TILL DEATH DO US PART: MARRIAGE OF YOUNG GIRLS DOOMS ZAMBIA’S HIV RESPONSE
Lusaka, Zambia (2010 Features): With high poverty levels, women can be easily co-erced into having unprotected sex by men who have money. Women are exposed to HIV as they have no choice but to submit to demands for sex in exchange for money. This is particularly true among young girls who are forced into early marriages by their parents. A UNICEF study estimated 42 per cent of women between the ages of 15 to 24 years were married before the age of 18 in Zambia. ...More»
 

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