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Women Lead in the Fight Against AIDS
Author: CEDPA 
InfoShare Partner: Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA)
Publication Date: May 2006
Type of Document: Article/Report/Paper
Topics: Gender, HIV/AIDS, general, HIV/AIDS prevention, HIV/AIDS care/treatment
Region: Asia/Pacific, Europe, North America, Sub-Saharan Africa
Language: English
Additional information: Among the powerful stories and creative approaches highlighted in the Women Lead magazine: • Irene Kpodo uses drama and play-acting to get audiences to discuss ways to avoid HIV/AIDS. At the Ghana Association of People Infected and Affected by HIV/AIDS, she educates families and teens, especially young women, in basic facts about how the disease is transmitted, its effects on the body and ways to cope with it at home. “I say I have had two lives,” she said. “One without HIV and one with it.” • Zeenat Sultana, a physician for the Bangladesh Center for Communications Programs, hopes to keep HIV/AIDS rates low in Bangladesh by working with transport workers, migrants and other groups at high risk. “We are a poor country and a high level would be devastating for us,” she said. Read more and download the entire publication at www.cedpa.org.
Number of Pages: 36
File Size: 7 KB
File Format: Web Page

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This new magazine from the Centre for Development and Population Activities (CEDPA) profiles a dynamic group of women who are on the front lines in the fight against AIDS. These 12 leaders came together for a month-long WomenLead in the Fight Against AIDS workshop, held fall 2005. Their stories help us understand how the pandemic affects the lives of women and their families, and the way forward.