Gender Studies

Study Confirms HIV Viral Load Lower In Women Than Men; Implications For Therapy

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 22nd, 2001

A 10-year study of injection drug users infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) has conclusively confirmed that women have lower viral load (the number of HIV particles present in blood) than men, particularly in the first few years after infection.

HIV infected women, however, progress to AIDS at the same rate as men.

These results clarify how candidates for antiretroviral therapy should be chosen, say researchers with the Johns Hopkins Schools of Public Health and Medicine. Their report appeared in the March 8, 2001, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

In the study median viral loads were...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2001-03-22)

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