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U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• News Briefs
Canada: Women With HIV a Growing Trend
December 3, 2002 Health Canada statistics show an estimated 5,956 women have tested HIV-positive as of Dec. 31, 2001. The proportion of newly infected women had risen to nearly 25 percent of all new cases between January 1999 and Dec. 31, 2001. Women accounted for 9.7 percent of new cases between 1985 and 1995. Louise Binder, chair of Voices of Positive Women, said that increase is similar, though "obviously on a smaller scale," to findings in a UN report released last week revealing, for the first time, that women make up nearly half of the HIV-infected people in the world.
Excerpted from:Back to other CDC news for December 3, 2002 Toronto Star 12.02.02; Nick McCabe-Lokos This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. |
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