Risk Factors

Hispanic women on border face higher HIV risk

Published in AIDS Weekly, October 7th, 2002

Hispanic women living along the border between the United States and Mexico have an increased risk for HIV infection by their husbands or boyfriends, according to a University of Arizona professor and researcher who specializes in public health.

"What we are seeing is that heterosexual Latinas find out they are infected with HIV after finding out their husbands or boyfriends are infected," Antonio Estrada, the director of the University of Arizona's Mexican-American Studies and Research Center, told the Arizona Daily Star. "These men are bisexual and are infecting heterosexual Latinas at high rates, preliminary studies are showing."

Estrada,...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-10-07)

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