Irina Bokova underscored that UNESCO has been making a strong plea for education to be recognized as the key to reducing poverty, improving child and maternal health, fighting HIV and AIDS, and empowering girls and women.
Organisers are hoping that Laila Ali's famous name will help them reach out to young men and women who they say are the main victims of Aids and human trafficking.
And women, long regarded by AIDS activists as the epidemic's forgotten sex, are doing better than men.
People loved it and it taught a lot of people about HIV and AIDS, especially the youth and of course the women in the rural areas.
Learning materials about HIV and AIDS give girls and women the knowledge and skills to cope with the pandemic.
Compared to white women, the AIDS case rate is 5 times higher for Latinas and 20 times higher for black women.
The Hopkins team found that while both men and women had the same risk of developing Aids, women had lower viral loads than men during the first few years of becoming HIV positive.
"My most recent feature was about Kenyan and Ugandan women being inhibited by culture to participate in AIDS vaccine trials, " said Esther.
The message is clear: to end the AIDS epidemic, we must end violence against women and girls.
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Among the issues the women will be discussing at the three-day summit are ways to bridge the technology gap, including use of the internet in business development, strategies to cope with the economic impact of Aids and war, especially in Africa, financing women's enterprises and understanding trade agreements as globalisation continues to have an adverse impact on developing societies.
AIDS-sick husbands and children falls almost entirely on women.
Three years later Kassalow joined forces with BRAC, a global microfinance organization based in Bangladesh that hires women to sell baskets of health-related goods, like Band- Aids and aspirin.
Dr. Grant Colfax is Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy and Lynn Rosenthal is the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women.
Castro-Wright also seemed to figure out that stocking cosmetics, accessories and health and beauty aids in the same area made for a smoother buying experience for women.
"If you care about stopping the spread of AIDS, you ought to care about empowering women to make safe choices for themselves and their children, " he said.
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Phillips advocated "equal rights for women, minorities, people with mental illness and those who are physically challenged, " and her column "promoted AIDS awareness and education, hospice care, the living will, organ donation and also raised awareness about gender apartheid suffered by women in Afghanistan, " the syndicate said.
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