Press Release

World AIDS Day, Geneva, 1 December 2004, op-ed by Graca Machel, President of the Foundation for Community Development, Mozambique, and Kathleen Cravero, Deputy Executive Director of UNAIDS

Today, women and girls account for nearly half of the 37.2 million adults living with HIV worldwide. Over the past two years, the number of women infected with the virus has increased in every region of the globe, and if current trends continue, women and girls will soon outnumber men and boys infected with HIV.

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