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Passionate about a cause? Dedicate your personal journal to that topic or visit our Collaboration Room (http://beta.pulsewire.net/groups/create) to start an ongoing discussion group. If you are unsure of what online activism looks like, take a moment to browse the terrific examples below, provided by the Global AIDS Alliance (http://www.globalaidsalliance.org/): … Read More»

Here are a few of the key groups and websites for information about HIV/AIDS in women and girls. --AC d'Adesky/PulseWire International Community of Women Living with HIV/AIDS - an international network for HIV-positive women, based in UK, with chapters around the world. http://www.icw.org Society of Women and AIDS in Africa - a network of African groups fighting HIV in women http://www.swaainternational.org/ The Well Project (US) - a US site and resources for HIV-postive women http://www.thewellproject.org/en_US/ … Read More»

To guide discussions at the recent Nairobi summit on HIV/AIDS, the World YWCA and ICW provided handouts on each topic with suggested talking points to initiate meaningful discussion and debate on the topic. Now these handouts can be downloaded and used to generate further discussion and debate. 1. Women’s Leadership and Economic Empowerment 2. Affordable Treatment and Treatment Issues 3. Advocacy to End Gender Inequalities 4. Ending Stigma and Discrimination 5. Human Rights, Sexual and Reproductive Health & the Rights of Women and Girls Pass 'em on :) … Read More»

Ethiopia - From RISK to ACTION: Women and HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia. Nearly 60% of HIV infected individuals in Ethiopia are women. Gender bias and the biology of transmission make women more vulnerable to infection. Poverty, lack of access to education, and violence against women increase their risk. This film profiles the connection between gender and HIV/AIDS, as well as the work of leaders in education and policy change to improve the status of women. … Read More»

HI all. I'm just back from meeting with a nurse in Goma region of Democratic Republic of Congo. … Read More»