{"id":468,"date":"2007-07-25T15:36:42","date_gmt":"2007-07-25T15:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/redletters\/2007\/07\/a-call-for-wome.html"},"modified":"2007-07-25T15:36:42","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T15:36:42","slug":"a-call-for-wome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/redletters\/2007\/07\/a-call-for-wome.html","title":{"rendered":"A Call for Women to Help in the HIV Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love how passionate women are about issues that affect our world. Whenever we have missions trips, they are at least 75% women. When AIM (Adventures in Missions) does short and long term trips, 75% women. Women have carried heavy loads across the centuries when men either didn&#8217;t or couldn&#8217;t.&nbsp; Examples would be taking care of the home front during WWI and WWII when men were at war. Today, there&#8217;s a reason Russia is called, &quot;Mother Russia.&quot; It&#8217;s mostly women who are taking care of the family and working tirelessly.<\/p>\n<p>What does this have to do with HIV\/AIDS? The Kaiser Family Foundation has just released &quot;The Multsectoral Impact of the HIV\/AIDS Epidemic. Listen to one of their key findings, &quot;<strong>There is the potential for HIV to alter the ratio of women to men since so many affected by HIV are women.<\/strong> Women account for almost half (48%) of all adults living with HIV\/AIDS globally; they account for 59% of adults living with HIV\/AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa. HIV rates typically peak among women 5 to 10 years earlier than men and women with HIV also tend to die earlier than men.&quot; Thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/miketodd.typepad.com\/waving_or_drowning\/\">Mike Todd<\/a> for this info.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomdavis.typepad.com\/tom_daviss_blog\/files\/kaiser_report.pdf\">Download kaiser_report.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ladies, there&#8217;s plenty you can do! Take action and go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fivefor50.com\/\">Five for 50 website<\/a> now and sign up in 5 areas of involvement. Or, get involved with HIV education, go on a mission trip, get involved with an organization helping those infected with HIV. The world needs you and is waiting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love how passionate women are about issues that affect our world. Whenever we have missions trips, they are at least 75% women. When AIM (Adventures in Missions) does short and long term trips, 75% women. 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