Making the SDGs a Reality: IPM's CEO on Why Now is the Time to Invest in Women and HIV
The new Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in September 2015 include targets to secure the health and well-being of women. Greater attention to women and girls is arriving at an auspicious time, when there are positive developments on one of the gravest threats to women’s health and well-being: HIV and AIDS.
Advances toward stemming the epidemic among women are real, but also fragile. IPM's CEO Zeda Rosenberg explains why continued investment in new HIV prevention technologies and women's sexual and reproductive health is critical to building a more equitable and sustainable world. Read the full piece.
The advances made against HIV/AIDS in the past 15 years have not benefited everyone equally. We are still failing in one crucial area: preventing HIV infections in young women.
On the 105th International Women's Day, IPM's CEO Zeda Rosenberg and Sharon Hillier, co-principal investigator of IPM partner the Microbicide Trials Network, outline the need for new HIV prevention products for women and the promising research now under way to develop them
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