Last week Bono spoke at the California Women’s Conference, and he passed along some of these stats about women in Africa:
-Nearly two-thirds of adults with HIV in Africa are women. Young women (age 15 to 24) in South Africa accounted for around 90% of new HIV infections in 2007.
-In Africa, the likelihood of a woman [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘poverty’
October 27, 2008
Bono Talks About Investing in Women
October 21, 2008
A Powerful Noise
I just watched the trailer for this moving documentary, A Powerful Noise. The film profiles three different women: Hanh, an HIV-positive widow in Vietnam; Nada, a survivor of the Bosnian war; and Jacqueline, who works the slums of Bamako, Mali.
[The film] takes you inside the lives of these women to witness their daily challenges and their [...]
October 15, 2008
Campaign to End Fistula
The Campaign to End Fistula, led by UNFPA, has just announced that they’ll quadruple in size and work in 45 countries (up from 12). There are at least 2 million women in Africa, Asia and the Arab region living with obstetric fistula and 50,000 to 100,000 new cases developing each year. While obstetric fistula is [...]
October 15, 2008
Blog Action Day: Blogging Against Poverty
Today, October 15, is Blog Action Day. And here at Women Deliver, we’re psyched to get involved and be a part of this amazing movement. Today, thousands of bloggers will unite to discuss a single issue – poverty. The aim is to raise awareness, initiate action and to shake the web! And poverty is something [...]
