HIV/AIDS:
Long
considered a man's disease, HIV/AIDS is a rapidly growing public
health problem among women, with 17,142 new reported cases in women
between July 1998 and June 1999.
Approximately
40,000 new HIV infections occur each year in the United States,
about 70 percent among men and 30 percent among women. Of these
newly infected people, half are younger than 25 years of age.
Source:
http://www.niaid.nih.gov/factsheets/aidsstat.htm
The
AIDS epidemic is shifting toward women. While women account
for 28 percent of HIV cases reported since 1981, they accounted
for 32 percent of those reported between July 1999 and June 2000.
Similarly, women account for 17 percent of AIDS cases reported
since 1981, but 24 percent of those reported between July 1999
and June 2000.
Source:
http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/sexualhealth/glancelist.htm
From
1985 to 1997, the proportion of AIDS cases reported among women
increased from 7 percent to 19.1 percent. In just over a decade,
the proportion of all AIDS cases reported among adult and adolescent
women more than tripled, from 7% in 1985 to 23% in 1999.
While
AIDS-related deaths among women were decreasing as of 1998, largely
as a result of recent advances in HIV treatment, HIV/AIDS remains
among the leading causes of death for U.S. women aged 25-44. And
among African American women in this same age group, AIDS was
the third leading case of death in 1998.
Source:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/women.htm
By
June of 1999, a total of 118,789 women were reported with AIDS
-- 77 percent of women with AIDS were African Americans and Latinas.
In
just over a decade, the proportion of all AIDS cases reported
among adult and adolescent women more than tripled, from 7%
in 1985 to 23% in 1999. The epidemic has increased most dramatically
among women of color. African American and Hispanic women together
represent less than one-fourth of all U.S. women, yet they account
for more than three-fourths (77%) of AIDS cases reported to date
among women in our country.
It
is estimated that, in the United States, between 120,000 and 160,000
adult and adolescent females are living with HIV infection, including
those with AIDS.
Source:
http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/pubs/facts/women.htm
