HIV/AIDS
International Partnership for Microbicides Receives US $130 Million from UK Government and the Gates Foundation
Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 12th, 2009
Globally, 7,000 new cases of HIV infection and almost 6,000 AIDS-related deaths occur each day. Due to a mix of biology, culture, and socio-economic factors, women and young girls increasingly bear the burden of the HIV epidemic. In sub-Saharan Africa, young women are more than three times as likely to be infected as young men.
The two grants will support...
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