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Women leading the fight for better health

By: Jacki Evans, Ibon Villelabeitia and Ernest Waititu Source: The Global Fund In communities around the globe, women are on the frontlines of the fight against HIV, TB and malaria, as they strive to bring health to all. Women represent nearly 70 percent of the...

Forty years into the HIV epidemic, AIDS remains the leading cause of death of women of reproductive age—UNAIDS calls for bold action

Source: UNAIDS Gender discrimination and violence, gaps in education and lack of economic empowerment and protection of sexual and reproductive health and rights are blocking progress GENEVA/JOHANNESBURG, 5 March 2020—Ahead of International Women’s Day, UNAIDS has...

International Women’s Day 2020

Source: UN Women Women’s rights and gender equality are taking centre stage in 2020. Twenty-five years since the adoption of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action—a progressive roadmap for gender equality—it’s time to take stock of progress and bridge the...

World TB Day 2020 Campaign

World TB Day, falling on March 24th each year, is designed to build public awareness that tuberculosis today remains an epidemic in much of the world, causing the deaths of nearly one-and-a-half million people each year, mostly in developing countries. It...