AIDS/HIV (Transmission)

Study May Help Explain Heterosexual Transmission of HIV

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 11th, 1996

Researchers have discovered how a particular strain of the AIDS virus common in parts of Asia and Africa penetrates a woman's vagina more quickly than a common strain found in the United States. This possibly may explain why the disease spreads faster in women in some areas of the world than it has in the United States.

The discovery, published in the March 1, 1996 issue of Science, doesn't mean U.S. women have any less to fear from HIV, emphasized Dr. Anthony Fauci of the National Institutes of Health. Government figures show that rates of HIV infection are increasing fastest among women.

There are different subtypes of HIV. One version, HIV-1e,...

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