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Women and HIV/ AIDS Statistic
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Today the HIV/AIDS epidemic United States represents a growing and persistent health threat to women, especially women of color and young women. HIV infection and AIDS early in the epidemic were diagnosed for relatively few women. In 2002, HIV infection was the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25 to 34 years, among the four leading causes of death for African American women aged 20 to 24 and 35 to 44 years, just like for Hispanic women aged 35 to 44 years.
For overall, HIV infection was the 6th leading cause of death among all women aged 25 to 34 years and the 4th leading cause of death among all women aged 35 to 44 years in 2002 women health statistic.

Since the beginning of the epidemic, these data reports of AIDS cases from all US states and territories and have been used to monitor trends because they are representative of all areas. The data are statistically adjusted for reporting delays and for the redistribution of cases initially reported without risk. As treatment has become more available, trends in new AIDS diagnoses no longer accurately represent trends in new HIV infections.
These data now represent persons who are tested late in the course of HIV infection, who have limited access to care, or in whom treatment has failed.

Women sexual life inequality is a major issue in relationships between teenage girls and older men and speculated that some women may not insist on condom use out of fear that their partners will physically abuse them or leave them. Some women may be unaware of their male partners risk for HIV infection (such as unprotected sex with multiple partners, sex with many men, or drug injection use).
In one study for urban high schools from CDC, more than one third of African American and Hispanic female teenagers had their first sexual encounter with an older man. These teenagers, compared with teenagers whose partners were also teenagers, were younger at first sexual intercourse, were less likely to have used a condom during first and most recently reported intercourse, or were less likely to have used condoms consistently.

There is one factor in five new HIV diagnoses for women is related to injection drug use. By sharing injection equipment contaminated with HIV is not the only risk associated with substance use. Women who smoke or snort crack cocaine or other noninjection drugs may also be at high risk for sexual transmission of HIV if they sell or trade sex for drugs. Both casual and chronic substance users are more likely to engage in high-risk behaviors, such as unprotected sex, when they are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

Compiled data from CoolNurse