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ActionAid's Approach

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We treat the AIDS crisis like HIV itself - as a virus that needs treatment urgently. There is no cure, so prevention is essential.

Around six out of 10 people living with HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and the proportion is rising.

In areas with high rates of infection, many women find it hard to negotiate safe sex or are infected through sexual violence. Once infected, a poor woman is often rejected by her community, evicted from her home and her children taken away.

While we focus our support on women and girls, we work to ensure that anti-retro viral drugs and other treatment and care are available to everyone living with HIV and AIDS and that local and international policies work in their favour.

Killer facts

  • 33.2 million people are living with HIV and AIDS globally.
  • Half of all adults living with HIV are now women. In Africa that figure rises to 61 percent.
  • A person born in Swaziland today can expect to live to just 33.

 

Fact file

Only one in four people in need of HIV medicines can get them.

 

 

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