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UN Officials Call For Intensified Efforts to Eliminate Violence Against Women
Xinhua, 11/30/2009
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday led a chorus of United Nations officials in calling on the international community to make greater efforts to tackle the global pandemic of violence against women and girls.
A Chinese city with one of the nation`s highest rates of AIDS has opened a government-funded gay bar in an outreach effort that has stirred debate over the use of taxpayers` money.
The government soon realized awareness alone couldn’t make much difference, and the programme fell through because it couldn’t empower sex workers to say no to unprotected sex.
A survey published in the report said 60 percent of female sex workers and 45 percent of their male clients in Karachi and Lahore do not know that condoms can prevent transmission of HIV.
