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| | HIV Report September 2004: XV International AIDS Conference: Women and HIV in the Spotlight (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17) |
 | | The theme for the XV International AIDS Conference in Bangkok was "Access for All" and UN secretary general Kofi Annan made it clear in his address at the opening ceremonies that without HIV strategies focusing specifically on women, there can be no global progress in fighting the disease. |
 | | Noting that women now constitute nearly half of all people infected with HIV globally, a new UN report released in time for the conference, "Women and HIV/AIDS: Confronting the Crisis," documents the often invisible impact of AIDS on women and girls and highlights the ways discrimination, poverty and gender-based violence help fuel the epidemic. |
 | | Controlling for a variety of factors, including CD4 and viral load, age, race, substance use, and income, patients treated for depression (antidepressants plus counseling or counseling alone) were more likely to report use of HAART than those who were not treated. |
| www.hopkins-aids.edu /publications/report/sept04_2.html (2314 words) |
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