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Revista Habanera de Ciencias Médicas

On-line version ISSN 1729-519X

Abstract

OLIVA VENEREO, Dinorah de la Caridad; SAAVEDRA RAMIREZ, Clarivel  and  VINAS MARTINEZ, Arturo Luis. Women andVIH/SIDA: Why a problem. Rev haban cienc méd [online]. 2009, vol.8, suppl.5, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1729-519X.

In the last years the number of women infected by the Virus of Human Inmunodeficiency has risen in all the regions of the world, affecting mainly those women in reproductive ages. Many different factors affect on the great vulnerability in women: biological factors, as the mucous surface and the biggest viral concentrations they are exposed to, as well as socio-cultural and economic factors such as the social role that women assume in couple's relationship and the unequal opportunities that each society offers them.

Keywords : Vulnerability.; Viral concentrations; Social role; Unequal opportunities..

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