This year ActionAid launches a new campaign focusing on women's rights and HIV & AIDS, starting with a new report that shows that persistent and systematic violations of women’s rights are leaving women and girls disproportionately vulnerable to HIV and AIDS. The report calls on donors and national governments to fund programmes that reduce women and girl’s vulnerability to Aids as a matter of urgency.Globally the percentage of women and girls living with HIV and AIDS has risen from 41% in 1997, to almost 50% today, while in sub-Saharan Africa, 75% of 15 to 24-year-olds living with HIV and AIDS are female.