Abstract

ALVAREZ ESCOBAR, María del Carmen et al. AIDS in women: fatality or vulnerability?. Rev. Med. Electrón. [online]. 2010, vol.32, n.5, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1684-1824.

Throughout the last years, the epidemiological profile of the HIV infection has changed: it has stopped being a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, and now it is the disease that more affects young population, including women in their fertile age, conferring it a higher demographic and social transcendence. The increase of the number of infected women denotes a change in the dynamic of the epidemic at the national and international level, highlighting women's vulnerability to the infection. These women's high vulnerability is determined by several facts, associated to biological facts, their economic, educational and social condition, and also by the subordinated place they are in as a result of our sexual cultural construction and of the genre inequity socially established.

Keywords : ACQUIRED INMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [epidemiology]; ACQUIRED INMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [etiology]; ACQUIRED INMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME [transmission]; RISK FACTORS ; RISK GROUPS ; SEXUALITY; HUMANS; FEMALE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT.

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