Friday, December 17, 2004

The feminization of AIDS

The demographics of the international AIDS epidemic are gradually shifting:
The most striking news is that AIDS is fast becoming a disease that strikes younger women disproportionately. Ignorance is part of the problem, but the laws and social customs that keep women powerless and poor - and subject to sexual exploitation - are far more insidious.
This comes with a quite sobering account of the common state of women worldwide in terms of education and personal power . . .

(via Follow Me Here)

No comments: