March 2003 - In celebration of
International Women's Day, March 8th, women leading
the fight against HIV and AIDS will participate in a
series of live online chats throughout the month
of March. These women have fought the battles
against this truly global epidemic in the tall grass
of Africa, the grassroots of the U.S.A., international
policy arenas and the streets of New York, Philadelphia
and beyond.
Learn from them about effective prevention
and treatment programs in America and abroad; what's
being done to leverage more resources from wealthy nations
to fight AIDS around the world; how stigmatization
and disempowerment can compound the disease's ferocity;
the status of the quest for a vaccine;
the way the disease is impacting women in particular
in the developing world; and what it's like to live
with AIDS--and to raise a child with AIDS.
