HIV/AIDS and gender

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Out of 11.8 million young people (aged 15-24) living with AIDS, 7.3 million are young women and 4.5 are young men?
18.5 million of the 37 million adults (aged 15 to 49) living with HIV are women. In North Africa and the Middle East, 54 per cent of the HIV positive adults are women; in the Caribbean, the proportion has reached 52 per cent?
Transmission from men to women is two times more likely than from women to men? The risk is especially high in the case of unwilling sex with an infected partner since condom use is unlikely?
In Sub-Saharan Africa, teenage girls are 5 times more likely to be infected than boys, since girls are mostly infected not by boys their own age, but by older men?
(these statistics are from UNIFEM's Website)

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UNIFEM’s (United Nations Development Fund for Women)
Web portal about Gender and HIV/AIDS.
Gender-AIDS forum
This site provides includes daily discussions among people responding to the epidemic first-hand in many countries and communities. Look for the Gender-AIDS link on the home page to join or read what others are saying.
International Community of Women Living With HIV/AIDS
The only international network which strives to share with the global community the experiences, views and contributions of 19 million incredible women worldwide, who are also HIV positive.
Interagency Gender Working Group
The Interagency Gender Working Group is a network of organizations whose goal is to foster sustainable development and improve reproductive health and HIV/AIDS outcomes.