At-Risk Populations

AIDS expert says global strategy needed to combat "feminization" of HIV/AIDS

Published in Women's Health Weekly, June 30th, 2005

A Johns Hopkins University physician and scientist who has spent a quarter-century leading efforts to combat HIV and AIDS worldwide has issued an urgent call for global strategies and resources to confront the rapid "feminization" of the AIDS pandemic.

In an article appearing in the journal Science online June 10, 2005, Thomas C. Quinn, MD, professor of infectious diseases at Hopkins and a senior investigator at the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, and colleagues report that women have, in the last 20 years, moved from those least affected by HIV to those in whom the disease is spreading fastest.

"There has been a...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-06-30)

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