World AIDS Day: Women, Girls, and HIV/AIDS- Have You Heard Me?

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Materials for World AIDS Day now on the web!

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Women, girls, HIV and AIDS - World AIDS Day 2004

" Have you heard me today? "

This year's World AIDS Campaign posters, with the strap line " Have you heard me

today? " explore how gender inequality fuels the AIDS epidemic.

Copies of this year’s posters and other campaign support materials are now

online at http://www.unaids.org/wac2004/index_en.htm. Posters will be available

from Geneva in English, French, Spanish and Russian. We are hoping to arrange

for Arabic and Chinese

versions to be made available locally. Blank templates of images and text will

also be available for local adaptation – following requests from previous years.

Please direct any World AIDS Day enquiries that may come to you either directly

to the website pages, or mailto:wac@... or to +41-22-197-1027.

As you may know, World AIDS Day 2004 continues to build on the theme of HIV and

AIDS-related stigma and discrimination with a specific focus on women and girls.

We hope to encourage people to address female vulnerability to HIV – including

the role men and boys in tackling the underlying gender inequalities that fuel

the epidemic. All over the world women do not enjoy the same rights and access

to employment, property and education as men. Women and girls are also more

likely to face sexual violence.

This makes them more vulnerable to HIV and, as the primary care givers, to the

impact of AIDS. The posters end with the strong message: " Equality for women

helps fight AIDS " .

As usual the global epidemiological update will be launched to the media in the

run-up to World AIDS Day, this year on 23 November. It will include a section

highlighting the impact of HIV and AIDS on women and girls.

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Bob Verbruggen

Technical Advisor Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in Development

& Focal Person for the Partnership with the GTZ

Strategy Support Division (CRD)

UNAIDS - WCC 159

20, Avenue Appia

1211 CH-Geneva

Tel. +41-22-791-1694

Fax: +41-22-791-4149

mailto:verbruggenb@...

http://www.unaids.org