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KENYA: Gender Equality Key to Combating AIDS
By Joyce Mulama
NAIROBI - The importance of placing gender equality at the heart of efforts to combat AIDS was highlighted in Kenya this week, with the release of a new plan by the gender sub-committee of the National AIDS Control Council.... (continue)
 http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22801

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BRAZIL: AIDS Spreading Six Times Faster Among Teenage Girls
By Mario Osava
RIO DE JANEIRO - HIV/AIDS is spreading at an alarming rate among teenage girls in Brazil, with six 13 to 19-year-old girls infected for every boy in that age group.... (continue)
 http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22805

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SOUTHERN AFRICA: AIDS the Focus of Int'l Women's Day
By Moyiga Nduru
JOHANNESBURG - "As a woman, I can't bring a condom home. If I do, then I'm not a wife -- I'm a prostitute. My husband will ask me whether I have a secret lover. If I don't, he will want to know where I had learnt how to use a condom," says Siphiwe Hlophe.... (continue)
 http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22734

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EGYPT: Silence Cloaks Female Circumcision
By Cam McGrath
CAIRO - Samah still remembers the pain and bleeding that followed an operation her parents forced her to undergo when she was 10 years old. Now 20, she is determined she would never do the same to a daughter.... (continue)
 http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22778

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SOUTH AFRICA: Reproductive Care a Work in Progress
By Nawaal Deane
JOHANNESBURG - With the world marking International Women's Day this week, women in South Africa might find themselves asking what benefits 10 years of democracy have brought them especially in the important area of reproductive health.... (continue)
 http://ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=22748

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