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White Papers
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amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research
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Fact Sheet: Women and HIV/AIDS
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Historically, women have been neglected in HIV/AIDS research, treatment, care, and prevention efforts in the U.S. and around the world. This lack of attention to women’s health issues, com- bined with biological differences in the ways HIV affects men and women, social and economic inequities, and environmental factors, has led to a dramatic rise in the number of women living with HIV, as well as an increase in AIDS-related deaths among women. These factors, along with research and prevention efforts that focused on men only, have left many women unaware that they are vulnerable to the disease. As a result, the proportion of women in the U.S. living with HIV/AIDS has more than tripled since the beginning of the epidemic. In 2005, women represented 26 percent of HIV/AIDS diagnoses, compared with 8 percent in 1985.1
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Fact Sheet: Women and HIV/AIDS (pages: 8)
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