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Women account for half of HIV cases for the first time.
2003 JAN 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Two decades after AIDS first became noticed, as a disease of homosexual men, women now account for half of the 37 million adults infected with HIV, according to a new United Nations report.
The finding is one of the key findings published in the AIDS Epidemic Update, a report on the evolution of the global HIV status produced twice a year by two U.N. agencies, the World Health Organization and UNAIDS.
It found that the AIDS epidemic claimed more than 3 million lives in 2002 and that an estimated 5 million people became infected this year, bringing to 42 million the number of people living with the virus.
"This year, for the first time in the epidemic's history, the number of women living with HIV has risen to 50% of the global total," said Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of UNAIDS.
"The face of AIDS has changed," he said. "You could say there's been a feminization of AIDS."
In Africa, women already make up 70% of the HIV-infected population and that is gradually increasing, Piot said, and elsewhere around the world, women make up a growing proportion of people living with HIV because sex between men and women has taken over as the primary way the disease spreads in many regions.
Sub-Saharan Africa is still by far the worst affected region. About twice as many young women as men are infected there, the report found.
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