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Violence and the virus: IAC women say hands off.

Publication: WORLD
Publication Date: 01-NOV-06 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Violence and the virus: IAC women say hands off.(Reprint)

Article Excerpt
Chantal Mukandoli traveled all the way from Rwanda in August for the International AIDS Conference in Toronto. A short trip, she says, compared to her journey since the days in 1994 when she was repeatedly raped during the 100-day genocide there--and exposed to HIV in the process. "I suffered for years before I could begin to talk openly about this," she recalls.

Mukandoli spoke to other conference-goers on a theme that has emerged as central in Toronto: the cruel link between sexual violence and HIV, both as an extra factor for infection and in response to the news of a woman's diagnosis.

HIV transmission through forced sex with a positive man is as tricky to measure as it is to stop. "It's not only rape and...

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