Women and HIV in the Middle East and North Africa
Abstract
The document presents a Women and HIV in the Middle East and North Africa. Women are on the frontlines of HIV across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Of the estimated 470,000 [340,000 – 540,000] people living with HIV in MENA, approximately 40% are women. Their numbers are set to grow: MENA is one of only two regions of the world where new HIV infections, and AIDS-related deaths, continue to rise. The majority of countries in MENA are witnessing concentrated epidemics, among most-at-risk-populations, and in most countries, sex is the main route of transmission. This means that women are touched both directly—as injecting drug users or sex workers—and indirectly—as the sexual partners of clients, or injecting drug users, or men who also have sex with men. Wives are hit particularly hard: in a number of countries, the majority of women living with HIV have been infected by their husbands.
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| 2024-05-23 13:29:27
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Social protection//Reproductive Health// Sexual Health//Sexual Rights//Health insurance//Right to health// Access to health // Health system // Women and Health// Right to Health//Health// Health Equity//Health Discrimination// Health Education//Health Status// healthcare//