Lady Comfort Ani

Lady Comfort Ani
National President of YWCA Nigeria
Wednesday April 25, 2007 ? 3:30 ? 5:00 pm
75 MacNab Street South, Hamilton
5R Conference Room
Lady Comfort Ani will speak about the HIV and AIDS crisis in Africa, and its impact on
women and girls. Q&A session to follow. Refreshments will be served. Please RSVP your
attendance to YWCA Hamilton Development Department at 905-522-9922 ext.111 or by
email at lynnemb@ywcahamilton.org.
HIV and AIDS is the largest global emergency to face women and girls in our lifetime. In
Sub-Saharan Africa, the region most devastated by HIV and AIDS, three out of four people
under the age of 25 years living with HIV are young women, and 59% of infected adults
are women. Globally, women make up almost half of the 39.5 million people living with
HIV, and this figure is rising. Since 1999, the World YWCA, one of the world?s largest
organizations for women and girls, with a membership and outreach of millions, has been
aggressively tackling this deadly disease. At the heart of the World YWCA?s global
strategy is the mobilization of women in local villages and communities to lead the fight
against HIV and AIDS.