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Palliative care for women living with HIV |
In 2011, UNAIDS estimated that at the end of 2010 there were 34 million adults worldwide living with HIV and AIDS – out of which 70 percent were in Africa and 50 were women. The AIDS epidemic has had a unique impact on women, which has been made worse by their role within society and their biological vulnerability to HIV infection. Generally women are at a greater risk of heterosexual transmission of HIV and are twice as likely to become infected with HIV through unprotected heterosexual intercourse as men. |
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Palliative care for women living with HIV and cervical cancer |
In 2011, UNAIDS estimated that at the end of 2010 there were 34 million adults worldwide living with HIV and AIDS – out of which 70 percent were in Africa and 50 were women. The AIDS epidemic has had a unique impact on women, which has been made worse by their role within society and their biological vulnerability to HIV infection. Generally women are at a greater risk of heterosexual transmission of HIV and are twice as likely to become infected with HIV through unprotected heterosexual intercourse as men. |
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Silenced and forgotten |
The impact of the HIV and AIDS epidemic is felt hardest by the individuals who are infected or affected by the disease, and in particular by individuals who are especially vulnerable to HIV infection due to stigma and discrimination, poverty, a lack of access to education, health and other services that promote HIV awareness. However, the impact of HIV and AIDS goes beyond the individual or household level – it affects nations as a whole. |
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Rights boost for Zimbabwe's Deaf |
Sexual & reproductive health sign language dictionary
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Zambia Court case on HIV+ prisoners rights |
Poor food and conditions violate prisoners' rights
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HIV donor roundtable |
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OSISA-OSF Core Grants Initiative Partner–wide Workshop |
Strategically Positioning Work on HIV and AIDS and human rights in the Southern African Region
Overall Workshop Objective |
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Preventing deaths from cervical cancer |
Minimal action could save thousands of lives
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Palliative Care in Southern Africa - Country Reports |
With the huge burden of cancer, HIV, and other life-limiting illnesses across Africa, a clear public health argument exists for the availability of pain- and symptom-relieving drugs to improve the quality of life of millions of people, to maximise clinical benefit from available treatments, and to ensure freedom from unnecessary suffering. Despite this, many barriers exist that prevent access to palliative care on the continent. In particular, effective pain medication is not adequately available to people who need it. |
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Palliative Care in Southern Africa |
In many African countries, palliative care is not yet integrated into national policies so public health access is not available to the majority of those who require palliative care. The African Palliative Care Association (APCA) embarked on a project that aimed to review national legislation and policy documents and implementation strategies across ten African countries to identify and assess ways to support palliative care scale-up at the national level. |
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