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In this section, PeaceWomen classifies information by Theme- Health - and by Subthemes: General; HIV/AIDS; and Reproductive Health

It should be noted that the themes and sub-themes are interlinked and mutually reinforcing. Please remember that PeaceWomen posts information that is focused on women, peace and security.

 

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  • May 3, 2012 (Chicago Tribune)
    SOUTH SUDAN: The Difficulties of Being a Woman in South Sudan Decades of conflict have left South Sudan with some of the world's worst health and educational indicators, contributing to a growing problem of violence against women in the world's newest nation.
  • April 25, 2012 (Foreign Policy )
    ARAB SPRING: 'Why Do They Hate Us' In "Distant View of a Minaret," the late and much-neglected Egyptian writer Alifa Rifaat begins her short story with a woman so unmoved by sex with her husband that as he focuses solely on his pleasure, she notices a spider web she must sweep off the ceiling and has time to ruminate on her husband's repeated refusal to prolong intercourse until she too climaxes, "as though purposely to deprive her."
  • April 18, 2012 (MSF)
    DRC: A Fashion Show Featuring Women Living with HIV This past March was designated women's month in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). In order to close it out on a high note, Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams in DRC did something a little unusual. Along with Médecins du Monde and the Réseau National Des Organisations d'Assise Communautaires des PVV (the RNOAC, a national network of community-based organizations that assists people with HIV/AIDS), they organized a fashion show on March 30 that featured 12 women living with HIV/AIDS. The goal was threefold: to fight discrimination against people living with HIV, to alert the public to the tragic lack of access to treatment in the country, and to show what is possible when treatment is made available.
  • April 13, 2012 (Medical Daily)
    UZBEKISTAN: Women in Uzbekistan Report Being Forcibly or Unknowingly Sterilized By the Gov't Authorities in Uzbekistan have reportedly been running a secret program in the last two years to sterilize women, often without their knowledge or consent, according to the BBC.
  • April 4, 2012 (Voice of America)
    SUDAN: US Physicians Group Offers Evidence of Darfur Atrocities A U.S.-based group of physicians on Tuesday released medical evidence of widespread torture, sexual assault and other human rights violations against civilians in Sudan's conflict-wracked Darfur region. The study was released by the group Physicians for Human Rights in the peer-reviewed Internet medical journal, PLoS Medicine.

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