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In the early years of the HIV epidemic most believed that women could
not get HIV. HIV was a gay disease. However, the proportion of adolescent
and adult women living with AIDS has tripled in the last decade. The
CDC reports that in 1986 women represented 7% of all reported AIDS
cases and by 1999 this number jumped to 25%. Today women represent
30% of new HIV infections with the majority of these new infections
impacting women of color. At the end of 2000, 80% of reported HIV/AIDS
cases among women were African-American and Latina. Today, HIV/AIDS
is the fifth leading cause of death for women ages 25-44 and the third
leading cause of death.
Find out more about Women,
Sex & HIV.
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