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Home > Zimbabwe: Action against gender inequality needed to defeat AIDS

Contributor [1]
Thursday, August 12, 2004 - 03:00
Categories: 
Women & gender [2]
Issue Number: 
169 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Urgent action against gender inequality is required to tackle the high rate of HIV-infection among women and girls in Zimbabwe, a report prepared by a regional task force has warned. Nearly 80 percent of all HIV infections in the 15 to 24 age group were among young women, said the Zimbabwe country report of the UN Secretary-General's Task Force on Women, Girls and HIV/AIDS in Southern Africa.

Category: 
Gender & Minorities [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/wgender/23721 [5]
Country: 
Zimbabwe [6]

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