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World AIDS Day - Call for stronger Leadership
On 1 December, people around the world celebrate World AIDS Day. This year, World AIDS Day focuses on 'leadership', the theme set by the World AIDS Campaign under the five-year slogan "Stop AIDS, Keep the Promise". From Rome, where she attended a Technical Consultation on Gender, Property Rights and Livelihoods in the Era of AIDS (28-30 Nov 2007), Ms. Elizabeth Mataka, UN Special Envoy for HIV and AIDS for Africa confirmed her determination to strengthen leadership on the continent and in her native country, Zambia:

Interviewer: Liliane Kambirigi, FAO
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Women still account for 60% of all HIV infected adults living in sub-Saharan Africa. FAO is working with affected women's groups as well as with governments and local-level groups to increase awareness about the issues of land grabbing and land reform as they affect women in developing countries, in particular in areas of HIV/AIDS prevalence. Women continue to be discriminated and stigmatized despite the efforts that many governments have taken to sensitise communities in recent years. Unlike many widows or separated women, Flavia Kyomukama, HIV positive and member of Women's group in Uganda, survived land property grabbing from her husband.
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