Oleh : Laksmi This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Fourteen years after Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) were launched, there are some goals that are not easy to achieve. Although almost two hundred countries prepare strategy and innovative finance to achieve these goals, they could not combat poverty which is the main problem in many developing countries. Based on Ban Ki-moon’s statement, reducing child and maternal mortality are the most difficult goals to achieve globally. In Indonesia, reducing maternal mortality, combating HIV and malaria, and making clean water available fail to be reached. To achieve these goals, women have significant roles in implementing strategy from government so that empowering women is the key to reach the goals in 2015. Seventy percent of poor people in the world are women. It means that they do not have the right to live properly because poor people could not…

By : Laksmi Amalia This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. The number of women living with HIV and AIDS are increasing sharply since Luc Montaigner first found this disease in the early 80’s.  Based on the report from UNAIDS which was published in 2009, there was 15,7 million women living with HIVand AIDS in 2008. Ministry of Health reported that in 2009, out of 19.973 people living with HIV and AIDS in Indonesia, a third of them are women. Unfortunately, these women do not know that they are infected with HIV because in the early stage of infection, the patients are asymptomatic. Sometimes, they just have flu-like symptoms, but when they meet the doctor, they are diagnosed as having a common cold. Moreover, the women do not take an early detection of HIV and AIDS because they do not feel that they have the deviant behavior. …