AIDS is the world's number one cause of death among women between the ages of 15 and 49.
An important reason for this shocking fact is that women with violence (70 percent), as a result of which they are hardly or not at all able to negotiate about safe sex.
Unaids (UN organization that fights against AIDS) yesterday in New York a five-year plan launched to address the issues. Singer Annie Lennox supports the campaign.
At the end of 2008, more than 33 million people were infected with the HIV virus.