The number of women with HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) infection and AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) has increased steadily worldwide. By the end of 2005, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), 17.5 million women worldwide were infected with HIV.[1]
 
Ever since the global panic about HIV started, Africa has been represented in extremely catastrophic terms as the lost continent. There is now growing attention to the fact that young women and babies are the major HIV risk group in Africa.
 
Three-quarters of all Africans between the ages of 15 and 24 who are HIV-positive are women. That astonishing figure, just released by UNAIDS, highlights the growing concern of international agencies, African governments and AIDS activists over the 'gendered' impact of AIDS in Africa. It also has spurred the beginnings of a campaign to help young African women counter the disease.
In both research literature and popular media the striking statistics of Sub-Saharan Africa are presented at the beginning of each article : for example that almost one fourth of pregnant mothers in Central Africa are infected .[2]In this study we ask if this new emphasis in media reports has ,in fact ,any impact on HIV prevention strategies ,and whether women are actually taken into account for STI (Sexually Transmitted Infections) and HIV. All the countries I motion in the paper are in Central Africa. You can find them in the following map 1.
 

[1] www.who.int

[2] Rethinking Sexualities in Africa, By Arnfred

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