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Epidemic of Inequality:Women's Rights & HIV/AIDS in Botswana & Swaziland
Physicians for Human Rights
May 25, 2007

http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/library/report-2007-05-25.html

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Deeply entrenched gender inequities perpetuate the HIV/AIDS pandemic in Botswana and Swaziland, the two countries with the highest HIV prevalence in the world. The legal systems in both countries grant women lesser status than men, restricting property, inheritance and other rights. Social, economic and cultural practices create, enforce and perpetuate legalized gender inequalities and discrimination in all aspects of women's lives. Neither country has met its obligations under international human rights law. As a result, women continue to be disproportionately vulnerable to HIV/AIDS.

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