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More women than men now contracting HIV.
2004 JAN 1 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- If you think AIDS is a disease mostly of young men, think again. Women are the fastest-growing segment of people to contract the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the virus that causes AIDS.
Women face HIV risks and complications that can differ from men, according to the December 2003 issue of Mayo Clinic Women's HealthSource. Women are particularly vulnerable when fragile vaginal tissues are exposed to seminal fluids containing the virus. (About 75% of women who have HIV became infected during sex with an HIV infected man.)
Women and men may have the same early signs of HIV: low-grade fevers, night sweats, ...
- HIV/AIDS Interventions in Bangladesh: what can application of a social...
- Magazine article from: Journal of Health Population and Nutrition Khosla, Nidhi August 1, 2009 700+ words
INTRODUCTION Recent work in the field of HIV and AIDS prevention and control in Bangladesh has highlighted the impending HIV epidemic in the country since the prevalence of HIV is rising among injecting drug-users (IDUs), with...
- HIV testing among pregnant women--United States and Canada, 1998-2001.
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report November 15, 2002 700+ words
...that 766 (93%) of 824 HIV-infected women in 25 states knew their HIV...transmission is to maximize prenatal HIV testing of pregnant women. States and Canadian provinces...provinces tallied the number of HIV tests among pregnant women that were submitted to provincial...
- HIV-1 Group O Infection in Cameroon, 1986-1998.(Statistical Data Included)
- Magazine article from: Emerging Infectious Diseases Ayouba, Ahidjo Mauclere, Philippe Martin, Paul M.V. Cunin, Patrick Mfoupouendoun, Jermie Njinku, Bernadette Souquieres, Sandrine Simon, Francois May 1, 2001 700+ words
We report a survey of HIV-1 group O infection in Cameroon during 1986 to 1998. The prevalence of HIV-1/O decreased from 0.6% to 0.4%, while HIV-1/M increased from 19.2% to 31.5% from 1994 to 1998. We concluded that HIV...
- Prenatal HIV testing and antiretroviral prophylaxis at an urban...
- Newspaper article from: Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Nesheim, S Henderson, S Lindsay, M Zuberi, J Grimes, V Buehler, J Lindegren, ML Bulterys, M January 2, 2004 700+ words
...persist. All children born to women identified as HIV infected and delivered at GMH...maternal and infant ZDV among HIV-infected women also has been >90...29 (58%) of 50 pregnant HIV-positive women, compared with eight (16...
- HIV Vaccine Study First to Show Some Effectiveness in Preventing HIV.
- Newspaper article from: AIDS Vaccine Week October 5, 2009 700+ words
...globally-effective HIV vaccine." The U.S...16,000 Thai men and women who consented to participate...to reduce the amount of HIV in the blood of those...study. More than 16,000 HIV-negative men and women between the ages of 18...
- HIV specialists' academy will offer certification.
- Newspaper article from: AIDS Alert January 1, 2001 700+ words
HIV specialists academy will offer certification HIV patients can find specialists on Web site (R. Scott Hitt, MD, President of the American Academy of HIV Medicine in Los Angeles, discusses with AIDS Alert how the...
- HIV/AIDS: Federal and State Efforts to Identify Infected Individuals and...
- General Accounting Office Reports & Testimony October 1, 2009 700+ words
...09-985 September 23, 2009 Of the estimated 1.1 million Americans living with HIV, not all are aware of their HIV-positive status. Timely testing of HIV-positive individuals is important to improve health outcomes and to slow the disease...
- HIV/AIDS and HIV nephropathy. (Educational Supplement)(Continuing Education).
- Magazine article from: Nephrology Nursing Journal Burns, Jerry Longton, Sharon Robinson, F. Patrick Wolfe, Gary February 1, 2003 700+ words
...the National Institutes of Health (HIV/AIDS Statistics, 2002). The majority of these HIV-infected individuals are young people, with a rising incidence in young women. One third of those living with HIV globally are between the ages of 15...
Source: HighBeam Research, More women than men now contracting HIV.