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AIDS infections growing among young women, experts say

Published in Women's Health Weekly, August 22nd, 2002

The AIDS pandemic is increasingly becoming one of young women, experts say. About half of all new infections are in women and among people in their late teens and early 20s; females account for nearly two-thirds of new cases.

Sex between men and women continues to be the main way HIV is spread in the developing world, where the majority of HIV cases are, and it is difficult for women there to follow prevention recommendations because of their subordinate position in society.

"It is women and girls who are overwhelmingly the casualties of this scourge, and it is getting worse," said Stephen Lewis, the U.N. secretary-general's special envoy on AIDS in...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-08-22)

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