Fostering gender equality is one of the most important strategies for fighting HIV and AIDS in the developing world, along with maintaining existing campaigns, including promoting condom use, an expert on woman's health and social issues said.
In a lecture last week at the National Women's Education Center in Saitama Prefecture, Suman Mehta, Global HIV/AIDS coordinator of the United Nations Population Fund, said the social, economic and biological vulnerability of women is one of the reasons the disease has spread so rapidly.
The UNFPA focuses on improving reproductive health care in developing countries.