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South Asians Confront AIDS Among Monogamous Women
By Julia Marsh, WeNews correspondent
Sunday, December 20, 2009
WASHINGTON (WOMENSENEWS)--Ice was broken here in early December among three powerful groups of South Asian women.
About 20 female parliamentarians, journalists and staff members of nonprofit groups in South Asia left Washington, D.C., with strategies they believed could reduce the current specter of women losing their homes after caring for spouses who died of AIDS, as well as aiding HIV-positive women who are unable to reach rural clinics and teens who aren’t aware of how to prevent the infection.
They were also carrying with them a loose agreement to work together within their region to stop the rising spread of HIV and AIDS, particularly among monogamous women.
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