A UNDP programme is helping HIV-positive women to establish small businesses to enable them to be financially independent. A good move considering the discrimination and dispossession of property that these women are facing–see this article on the recent Court of Women, the first regional summit on the issue of inheritance and property rights of women in the context of HIV in Asia Pacific.
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