Windhoek, Namibia Approaches for Empowering Women in the HIV/AIDS Pandemic: a gender perspective
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The focus of my talk, as the title suggests, is on gender-sensitive ways to empower women in order to protect them in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. The talk is limited to issues related to the heterosexual transmission of HIV because that has been the focus of my work over the last decade. I recognize that heterosexual transmission is only one aspect of the epidemic, but it is by no means irrelevant since the most recent statistics show that heterosexual transmission of HIV remains by far the most common mode of transmission globally.
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