Epidemiology

Number of seniors contracting AIDS growing

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 9th, 2002

Newly divorced after 23 years of marriage, Jane P. Fowler was hesitant to reenter the dating scene. When the then 50-year-old woman finally began seeing someone, it was a man she had known for years - a man she now believes infected her with the AIDS virus.

"I had no idea what was out there," said the Kansas City, Missouri, woman. "I was an older woman. I did not have to worry about becoming pregnant."

Fowler, now 67, is part of the new face of HIV - which increasingly is heterosexual, older and grayer.

"Women after menopause are not going to use condoms because they're not afraid of getting pregnant anymore. Viagra is...

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