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Disease Transmission
Violence against women fuels spread of HIV/AIDS
December 16th, 2004
Significantly more young women than men are now being infected by HIV/AIDS as violence against women and girls fuels the spread of the virus. HIV/AIDS is a human rights catastrophe that increasingly affects women, said Amnesty International in the report "Women, HIV/AIDS and human rights" published ahead of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, November 25, 2004. "The increasing spread of HIV/AIDS among women and sexual violence are interlinked. If governments are serious in their fight against the disease they also have to deal with another worldwide "pandemic": violence against women," the U.K.-based group said in a...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2004-12-16)
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