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View Post: Health Benefits of Massage
19 Nov 2009
Pregnancy massages aid in appeasing and resting the nervous system of the mother. This can help them sleep well at night which is very important for the health of both the mother and the baby. Some women experience mental anxiety and ...
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View Post: HIV/AIDS Is A Woman's Disease - Community
18 Nov 2009 by Anushay Hossain  
Women certainly don't. In fact, according to the Guttmacher Institute, an estimated 200 million women around the world currently wish to delay or prevent pregnancy, but lack access to contraceptives. ... US foreign policies play a huge role in shaping women's access to family planning. For example, the US, the largest funder to global health programs, has a $50 billion dollar AIDS initiative called PEPFAR (President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) which notoriously ...
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View Post: Abortion, Women's Health and Health Reform - Swampland - TIME.com
25 Nov 2009 by Karen Tumulty  
Of course I think AIDS has had a major impact on it all as well. At least un-protected sex is no longer considered to be a rational choice. You may end up with something more than just a baby as the outcome of your actions. ... Should she be made to carry a pregnancy to term that would result in her death at worst or at best jjeopardize her long term health? Should she be made to carry a fetus to term that a doctor has determined has such profound birth defects will not ...
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View Post: AIDS - Killer Number One Amongst Women
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14 Nov 2009 by Tammy.Vela   ...
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View Post: HIV - the number one killer of women? - WEGO Health
11 Nov 2009 by Sarah  
women live longer than men, but the extra years are not always healthy. as women age, non communicable diseases are more likely killers than the HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and pregnancy-related conditions that plague us between 15 and 45 ...
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View Post: Daily Delivery » Blog Archive » Health Systems are Failing the ...
20 Nov 2009 by Women Deliver  
HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death for all women worldwide. Women are particularly vulnerable to HIV infection because they are often not equipped with the education or resources to protect themselves during sex. Pregnancy and ...
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View Post: Activists, medical community to Obama: More funding needed to ...
16 Nov 2009 by AP  
November 5th, 2009 more images more images more images more images Medical aid group raises alarm about AIDS funding JOHANNESBURG — The global recession and pressure to divert funds to other health crises are hurting the fight against .... CanisiusLibrary Harvard Stem Cell Institute - understand and ultimately treat selected diseases and conditions. http://www.hsci.harvard.edu/; Complete_ Women's Health - Pregnancy Symptoms: Title: Pregnancy SymptomsCategory: Diseases and ...
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View Post: HIV/AIDS Leading Cause Of Death Among Women Ages 15-44, WHO Study ...
9 Nov 2009
"In its first study of women's health, the World Health Organization said yesterday that the AIDS virus is the leading cause of death and disease among women between the ages of 15 and 44," the Associated Press/Boston Globe reports (11/10). ... "Women who do not know how to protect themselves from such infections or who are unable to do so face increased risks of death or illness," as do "those who cannot protect themselves from unwanted pregnancy or control their ...
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View Post: IntLawGrrls: A glimmer of hope . . .
12 hours ago by noreply@blogger.com (Jaya Ramji-Nogales)  
On Wednesday, UNAIDS and the World Health Organization released a report on the AIDS epidemic. Much of the news is grim: in 2008, over 33 million people worldwide were living with HIV, nearly 3 million people were newly infected with ... unwanted pregnancies among HIV-positive women, the provision of antiretroviral drugs (which can decrease the risk of mother-to-child transmission from 30-35% to 1-2%) during pregnancy and delivery as well as appropriate treatment, care, ...
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View Post: Differences between men's and women's health « womensphere
10 Nov 2009 by womensphere  
Teenaged girls are at risk of unsafe, unwanted and forced sexual activity that can make them vulnerable to HIV/AIDS, other infections, unwanted pregnancy and unsafe abortion. – Women catch sexually transmitted infections more easily ...
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