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AIDS: The women's epidemic.
AIDS is now the world's leading infectious cause of death. The World Health Organization estimates that 2.5 million people died of AIDS in 1998 -- nearly 1 million were women (World Health Organization [WHO] & Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS [UNAIDS], 1998).
The AIDS epidemic among women continues to grow. Of the 33.4 million people estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS worldwide, 13.8 million are women and 1.2 million are children (WHO & UNAIDS, 1998).
Women are almost half of the 14,000-plus adults who are infected with HIV each day. More than 90 percent of women with HIV/AIDS live in a developing, or Third World, country. In some countries, as ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, AIDS: The women's epidemic.