"The link between gender-based violence and HIV infections needs to be explicit in the outcome document of the Commission on the Status of Women [CSW], delegates said this week," the Guardian reports. "At a side event at the 57th CSW, which began in New York on Monday, activists were urged by ministers of some sub-Saharan countries to ask their governments to press for the inclusion of effective measures to prevent violence and treat women who are infected with HIV through sexual abuse," the newspaper writes, adding, "The inclusion of passages in the final CSW document are still under discussion." The article quotes Julia Duncan-Cassell, the gender minister of Liberia; Nana Oye Lithur, Ghana's gender minister; Thokozani Khupe, Zimbabwe's deputy prime minister; and Sheila Tlou, director of UNAIDS regional support team for east and southern Africa (Ford, 3/7).