Women
HIV and AIDS were originally thought to affect mostly gay men. However, women have always been affected too. And even though more men than women have HIV, women are catching up. In fact, if new HIV infections continue at their current rate worldwide, women with HIV may soon outnumber men with HIV.
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Recommendations for Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-1-Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV Transmission in the United States
From AIDSinfo
Community Mobilization for a Women’s Self-Care Health Promotion Campaign
From the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center, School of Nursing, University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey
HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Women (updated slide set)
From CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
Chlamydia Screening Among Sexually Active Young Female Enrollees of Health Plans - United States, 2000-2007
From CDC's MMWR Weekly; April 17, 2009 / 58(14);362-365
What
Are Black Women’s HIV Prevention Needs?
From the University of California San Francisco’s Center
for AIDS Prevention Studies
QuickStats:
Death Rates for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Disease Among Women,
by Race and Age Group—United States, 1987–2005
From CDC’s MMWR Weekly; March 27, 2009 / 58(11);286
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
Mother-to-Child (Perinatal) HIV Transmission and Prevention
From CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention
HIV/AIDS Surveillance Supplemental Report: Enhanced Perinatal Surveillance—Participating
Areas in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2000–2003 
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
From National Institute
of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Women and HIV/AIDS in the United States
HIV/AIDS policy fact sheet from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
Female Condom
Fact Sheet from the Global Campaign for Microbicides
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
HIV/AIDS Surveillance in Women (through 2007)
Slide set from the Division of HIV/AIDS
Prevention
A Guide to the Clinical Care of Women with HIV/AIDS
Publication from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA)
