Unlike the West, where most victims of AIDS are men, in Africa the pattern is exactly the opposite — the majority of those infected are women and young girls.
According to the latest figures in the UN’s 2004 Global Report on AIDS, 57 percent of adults infected with HIV are women, and 75 percent of […]
For years now, the government of South Africa has refused to allow the distribution of the anti-AIDS drug nevirapine to pregnant women. In December 2001, the Pretoria High Court ordered the government to provide the drug to HIV-postive pregnant women, but incredibly the government insists it will appeal the ruling.
Nevirapine is used widely around […]
There’s no anti-HIV microbicide on the market — is that because companies don’t care about women’s health?