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HIV/AIDS, Women's Human Rights and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: The principal obstacles for the implementation of the Declaration in Georgia.  

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HIV/AIDS, Women's Human Rights and the Declaration of Commitment on HIV/AIDS: The principal obstacles for the implementation of the Declaration in Georgia All of us must recognize AIDS as our problem. All of us must make it our priority. Kofi Annan, UN Secretary General, 25 June, 2001 Why cannot I have the operation? Why cannot I? HIV-affected Georgian woman Twenty years have passed since the world first heard of Human Immunodeficiency Virus and Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (HIV/AIDS), which cause an incurable deterioration of health. During this period the epidemics has spread to every corner of the world. According to the statistics, it has killed almost 22 million people (UN, 2001). More than 36 million people worldwide are living with HIV/AIDS, and every day, another 15,000 acquire the virus (UN, 2001). There is no other disease so dangerous nowadays for human immune system as HIV. There is no other disease so frequently discussed and referred to...

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