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AIDS literacy campaign targets women

    JOHANNESBURG

    Zimbabwean women are the focus of a new HIV/AIDS education initiative launched by the Southern Africa HIV/AIDS Information Dissemination Service (SAfAIDS).

    SAfAIDS officials hailed the 'Women's Treatment Literacy Toolkit for Communities' as a timely intervention, given that more than half the people living with the HI virus in the impoverished country were women.

    Doctor Nyasha Madzingira said in a statement: "The toolkit would help empower women with information on AIDS-related treatment and care issues. It would also assist in improving their levels of adherence to treatment and motivate women to go for voluntary counselling and testing."

    Formerly a high prevalence country, Zimbabwe recently became the first Southern African nation to report a significant decline in HIV infection, from 24.6 percent in 2003 to 20.1 percent in 2005.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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