World AIDS Day 2004 focuses on women, girls, and HIV and AIDS. Figures show that globally females are becoming infected with HIV at a faster rate than males, a change from the early years of the pandemic.
On the occasion of World AIDS Day, UNAIDS and WHO launched the AIDS epidemic update 2004 on 23 November. With maps and regional summaries, the 2004 edition of the annual report provides the most recent estimates of the epidemic’s scope and human toll, explores new trends in the epidemic’s evolution, and features a special section on women and AIDS.
EPHA members will be very active during World AIDS day 2004.
Stop AIDS Alliance - IAVI
The Stop AIDS Alliance, a joint initiative by AIDS Fonds and the International HIV/AIDS Alliance, is co-hosting with IAVI and other organisations a World AIDS Day event at the European Parliament on December 1st.
Speakers at the event will discuss issues such as:
gender and vulnerability,
commercial sex work.
the voice of HIV positive women, and
the need for female-controlled new preventative technologies such as microbicides and vaccines.
This event aims to stimulate debate on the role of the European Union in tackling these issues.
The other organisations hosting this event are the European Parliament Working Group on Population, Sustainable Development and Reproductive Health, the Global Campaign for Microbicides and the International Partnership for Microbicides.
For further information please visit the Stop AIDS Alliance website or contact Marta Monteso Cullel.
AIDES
EPHA French member AIDES is organising a series of events throughout the country to mark World AIDS day 2004.
A complete list of the events is available on the AIDES website (in French).
Other EPHA members working on AIDS include the AIDS Foundation Robert, the Estonian Association Anti-AIDS, the European AIDS Treatment Group, the European Coalition of Positive People, the International Centre of Health Protection - HERA, LILA CEDIUS - Center for Human Rights and Public Health, and ARAS - the Romanian Association Against AIDS.
