The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 38.6 million people are living with HIV worldwide. 1 By the end of 2005, according to the WHO, 17.5 million women worldwide were infected with HIV, over 45% of the world’s total. 2
In the 42 U.S. states with confidential name-based HIV infection reporting, women (adults and adolescents) were 30% of new HIV infections in 2004.3
In 1992, women accounted for 13.8% of people living with AIDS; in 2004, that percentage had increased to over 22%. Of the 123,405 women living with HIV/AIDS at the end of 2004, 64% were African American, 19% were white, 15% were Hispanic, less than 1% were Asians and Pacific Islanders, and less than 1% were American Indians and Alaska Natives.4
Among female adults and adolescents living with HIV/AIDS (of 35 areas with confidential name-based reporting through 2004), sexual contact accounts for 71% of infections, and injection drug use for 27%.5
In addition to facing unique clinical issues, women living with HIV/AIDS are often challenged by social isolation, poverty, discrimination, and lack of access to quality health care.
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HIV/AIDS Among Women
Fact sheet from the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
HIV/AIDS Among Women Who Have Sex With Women
Fact sheet from the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
HIV/AIDS and African American Women: A Consultation Supporting CDC's Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis among African Americans: Meeting Report
From CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
HIV/AIDS and African American Women: A Consultation Supporting CDC's Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis among African Americans: Slide Sets
From CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Updated Fact Sheet: Mother-to-Child (Perinatal) HIV Transmission and Prevention
From CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Common Questions about HPV and Cervical Cancer
Brochure from CDC’s Division of STD Prevention
What are Women Who Have Sex With Women’s HIV Prevention Needs?
From Center for AIDS Prevention Studies, University of California at San Francisco
HIV Infection in Women
Fact sheet from the National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Disease
HIV Infection in Women
Fact sheet from the American Academy of Family Physicians
Women and HIV/AIDS in the United States (PDF)
HIV/AIDS policy fact sheet from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
http://www.kff.org/hivaids/upload/6092-03.pdf
Female Condom
Fact Sheet from the Global Campaign for Microbicides
Gynecological Conditions and HIV / AIDS
HIV treatment information from Project Inform
Women’s Center on HIV/AIDS
From the Well Project
Treatment Issues for Women
Brochure from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America (ACRIA).
Public Health Service Task Force Recommendations for Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV Transmission in the United States
From the Department of Health and Human Services’ Perinatal HIV Guidelines Working Group
Rapid
HIV-1 Antibody Testing During Labor and Delivery for Women of Unknown HIV Status:
A Practical Guide and Model Protocol
F rom the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
(Added February 20, 2004)
Rapid Point-of-Care Testing for HIV-1 During Labor and Delivery--Chicago, Illinois, 2002 [HTML] [PDF]
MMWR: September 12, 2003 / Vol. 52 / 36:866-868
(Added September 12, 2003)
Pregnancy in Perinatally HIV-Infected Adolescents and Young Adults--Puerto Rico, 2002
MMWR: February 7, 2003 / Vol. 52 / 5:81-85
(Added February 28, 2003)
HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Women (through 2005)
Slide set from the Divisions of HIV/AIDS Prevention of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention
A Guide to the Clinical Care with Women with HIV/AIDS, 2001 First Edition
Publication from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
HIV Transmission Among Black Women - North Carolina, 2004
MMWR Feb 4, 2005; 54(04); 89-94.
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UNAIDS. 2006 Report on the global AIDS epidemic
2
National Institute on Allergy and Infectious Diseases. HIV Infection in Women
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2004. Vol. 16. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2005
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CDC. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2004. Vol. 16. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2005
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CDC. HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report, 2004. Vol. 16. Atlanta: US Department of Health and Human Services; 2005
