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National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day: March 10
Note: March 10 is National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and this year?s theme is ?HIV is Right Here at Home.? In 2005, women represented 26 percent of new AIDS diagnoses, compared to only 11 percent of new AIDS cases reported in 1990. Most women are infected with HIV through heterosexual contact and injection drug use. Women of color are disproportionately affected by HIV/AIDS with AIDS being the leading cause of death for Black women ages 25 to 34.
For more information and to download resources such as posters, save the date cards, graphics, and other materials from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Service, Office on Women?s Health, go to:
http://www.hhs.gov/aidsawarenessdays/days/woman/index.html
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