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Women Demand Action and Accountability Now

We, women's groups (including women living with and affected by HIV/AIDS and young women) present here at the High Level Meeting on AIDS, urge national governments and the UN system to keep their promises to women and girls who continue to be at an alarming risk of HIV infection and of receiving inadequate prevention, treatment, care and support as a result of persisting social, cultural and economic subordination, structural inequalities, as well as pervasive violence in their homes, communities, schools, workplaces, streets, markets, police stations hospitals, and situations of institutional confinement.

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