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Believe It Or Not Women Get Aids

Believe ItÂ…Women Get AIDS!

Early in the epidemic, men vastly outnumbered women among people infected with HIV. In 1998, women made up 41% of adults living with HIV. In 2004, nearly 50% of adults living with HIV globally are women – close to 60% in sub-Saharan Africa. Women are more physically susceptible to HIV infection than men and male-to-female transmission during sex is about twice as likely to occur as female-to-male ones. (1) It is becoming increasingly obvious that gender inequality and women's lack of empowerment are among the fundamental issues in the worldwide spread of HIV/AIDS. Only by addressing these problems will the HIV/AIDS pandemic be combated. Paul Farmer stresses this point in his chapter on ‘Invisible Women', "If indeed inequality is an important co-factor in this pandemic, then stopping AIDS will require a more ambitious agenda, one that calls for the fundamental transformation of our world. What is at stake in these tasks is well expressed by......


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