“I also remember the women who died while I was there. And a lot of them died from violence, not HIV. Or from being poor.“
“One of the social determinants of health is sex. So being women in and of itself is a social determinant of health: lack of education, lower employment, etc. There is a power dynamic with women, a cultural dynamic, an economic dynamic. Women know how to prevent this, but we need our own strategies. We are only going to be able to do it if we do it ourselves.”