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Violence against women is also a major cause of their increased vulnerability to HIV. This may make it difficult or impossible to control their own life or sexual abstinence, or even prevent their partners bring a condom. Violence or the threat of violence, may also be that women avoid HIV prevention, treatment, care and support to HIV.

For UNAIDS, this is a major concern. Its Results Framework Program for 2009 - 2011 has made violence against women and girls among his nine priorities.

According to Michel Sidibe, Executive Director of UNAIDS, "We know there is a strong link between violence against women and HIV. We must help young people to integrate the concept of mutual consent during sex and within marriage, and to be able to put an end to violence and sexual violence. This is essential to prevent HIV and achieve equality between men and women in all spheres of life. "

The report has an extremely broad scope and addresses many health problems faced by women. Factors that increase women's vulnerability to AIDS are also those which profoundly affects the overall health and well-being of women and girls. As the report notes, inequalities between men and women in the allocation of resources, eg education, income, health care, nutrition and the recognition of a political voice, are highly related to a poor health and well-being reduced.

"Despite considerable progress over the last 20 years, companies do not meet the needs of women at key moments in their lives," said Dr Margaret Chan, Director General of WHO, in the foreword to the report . "This failure is most severe in poor countries and poor women in all countries. Everyone does not enjoy the same manner of recent advances. Too many girls and women remain unable to reach their full potential because of persistent social inequalities, inequalities in health, inequality between men and women and inadequate health systems. "

The report examines the lives of women and girls at key stages in the field of health: early childhood, adolescence, adulthood and old age. It shows that women face of "widespread inequalities and persistent" in each of these steps. It highlights not only the needs of women's health, and how these needs are currently not covered - especially in the field of HIV, but also the invaluable contribution they make to the health sector and society in General.

Using current data, sharing current knowledge on the health of women from all regions and all stages of life, the report tries to draw the program tomorrow, one of whose main feature is to advocate for reforms allowing women to be not only from the perspective of their sexual and reproductive capacity, but also to become active agents of the provision of health care, playing a key role in the design, management and delivery health services.

The report draws attention to four areas in which political action could make a real difference in women's health: building a solid framework and a coherent institutional response merge around a clear program, adaptation of systems health for women; exploitation of changes in public policy to promote fundamental social change (eg through targeted actions to help girls go to school) and finally, building the knowledge base and monitoring progress.

The WHO hopes that by examining the data available and deciding a way forward convincing the health of women and girls, and society as a whole can be improved. As the report states, "improve the health of women is improving the world."