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U.S. News Gender Gap Found in HIV TreatmentJuly 15, 2004 Researchers from the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality have found that among privately insured HIV patients, only 39 percent of women receive antiretroviral therapy, compared with 71 percent of men. And even when women were prescribed antiretrovirals, they were only about half as likely to receive more expensive and effective protease inhibitors or nonnucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors. The plan studied 2,026 people covered by employer-sponsored plans at 24 large U.S. companies. The authors reported that previous research has found that pregnancy concerns may keep doctors from prescribing antiretrovirals to women. USA Today 07.15.04  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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