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Half of Those with HIV Are Women.
Byline: John Donnelly
Nov. 27--WASHINGTON--For the first time since scientists discovered AIDS more than two decades ago, specialists now believe that women with HIV account for roughly half of the adult cases worldwide, the United Nations said yesterday in its annual report on the pandemic.
Driving the increase among women is the explosive rise in heterosexual transmission in sub-Saharan Africa, the report said. An estimated 58 percent of HIV-infected adults in the region are women.
"The face of AIDS is clearly a female face in sub-Saharan Africa," said Peter Piot, executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, which is known as UNAIDS. "We are far away from the gay white man disease it used to be in the 1980s."
Piot said that heterosexual transmission is on the rise on every continent, posing a greater risk of rapidly spreading disease because the population of heterosexuals is far larger than the population of gay men and intravenous…
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