Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria: Confronting the Challenge: Women and Girls in Global Health
In an email alert, Seth Faison, head of communications at the Global Fund, writes, “We have published a short piece, Women and Girls, to highlight a growing challenge in global health. Gender inequalities, sexual violence, and discrimination fuel a devastating and disproportionate number of new HIV infections in women and adolescent girls, and increase their overall health risks. … In Women and Girls, and in other pieces in our Focus On series, we offer a summary of an issue critical to the mission of the Global Fund partnership, and how we are responding…” (11/12).