Millions of people with HIV/Aids in poor countries still do not have access to potentially life-saving drugs.
A major report found just 31% of people in need of treatment in low and middle-income countries had access to antiretroviral therapy (ART) in 2007.

The report, by the World Health Organization (WHO), UNAids and Unicef, said an extra 950,000 people in these countries received the drugs last year.

By Jaime Gher, New York, USA

Meet Rugiatu Turay, a female genital mutilation (FGM) survivor who has set out to ensure that other women and girls do not suffer the same tragic consequences that she has. While Turay was a refugee in Guinea during Sierra Leone's 1999-2001 civil war, she joined forces with other FGM survivors to establish the Amazonian Initiative Movement (AIM), a grassroots nonprofit organization working to eradicate FGM in Guinea and Sierra Leone.

By; Nurgul Djanaeva, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

Gulnara Derbisheva, a grassroots activist from the southern, poor province of Kyrgyzstan, and mother of six children, became a member of the national Kyrgyzstan Parliament in December 2007.  Political recognition of the rural woman activist was possible through Gulnara's active participation in the Women to Politics multi-year program at the Forum of Women's NGOs of Kyrgyzstan.