HIV/AIDS, Women's Human Rights and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: The principal obstacles for the implementation of the Declaration in Georgia

HIV/AIDS, Women's Human Rights and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: The principal obstacles for the implementation of the Declaration in Georgia All of us must recognize AIDS as our problem. All of us must make it our priority. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, 25 June, 2001 Why cannot I have the operation? Why cannot I? HIV-affected Georgian woman Twenty years have passed since the world first heard of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency …

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