Women Key to Reversing AIDS Epidemic, Experts Say
Wed December 01, 2004 04:03 PM ET
By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Correspondent
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Any effort to battle the AIDS epidemic must focus on changing the fate of women by educating them, helping them own property and giving them the power to stand up to men, experts said on Wednesday.
Women make up nearly 60 percent of all people infected with the AIDS virus in Africa, the continent hardest-hit by the deadly virus.
"Of the 14,000 people newly infected with HIV every single day, nearly half of them are women," said Geeta Rao Gupta, president of the International Center for Research on Women.