How Many Women Are Living With Aids

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Black Women Living With AIDS Thrive Thanks to Peer Support

Roberta Willis (name changed), 26, has come a long way since first discovering she was HIV-positive, thanks to a little help from her friends: peers and mentors who are also living with HIV. Raped and impregnated by a neighbor when she was 15,... Read more »

Black Women Living With AIDS Thrive Thanks to Peer Support

Jakarta Post Examines Challenges Faced by Women Living With HIV/AIDS in Indonesia

"Women are not only more vulnerable to HIV/AIDS infection, they also face greater risks of violence and discrimination when they become infected by the deadly virus," the Jakarta Post reports in an article that examines the challenges... Read more »

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AIDS clocks: How many are women??

Hi, Dr. Bob, You are a total inspiration! Thank you for this forum which is incredibly helpful. I saw those live AIDS clocks on the CBS/TV's CBS CARES website and they do make a really strong statement. My question is, do you know what percent...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,The epidemiology of the pandemic is changing. Women are biologically, socially and economically more vulnerable to HIV infection, especially in regions hardest hit by the epidemic. Globally, women are increasingly affected by HIV, and now make up... Read more »

Living with AIDS and now possibly breast cancer

I had an abnormal mammogram at this point they are not saying that I have breast cancer, I am scheduled to have a biopsy, I am scared and feel like I am in a catch 22 if I get the treatment for cancer will I have to stop the AIDS treatment, and if I...

Response from John L. Sullivan, M.D.

University of Massachusetts, Medical School

Breast cancer is a very common cancer in our population; while there are several cancers[ most of these are cancers that involve cells of the immune system] that occur more frequently in individuals with HIV infection there has not been evidence... Read more »

Dr. bobs genes (LIVING LONGER WITH HIV/AIDS)

hey Bob, r u like a long term survivor yourself. you have been poz for some time is this because of the new meds or just your excellent genes? can most new diagnosed persons expect to live a long life like 20 years is that norm with the meds today...

Response from Robert J. Frascino, M.D.

The Robert James Frascino AIDS Foundation

Hi,I seroconverted to HIV-positive following an occupational exposure in January 1991. So why am I still here when so many others who became virally enhanced around the same time have long since passed on to whatever comes next? Good question. There... Read more »

women to women

dear doctor please help mei'm a mother since 2 month now. march 2001 i had a sexual contact with my girlfired which is hiv +. i thought that what we are doing is safe. it was slight kissing, she performedoral sex on me a little and i fingered...

Response from Judith A. Aberg, M.D.

Washington University, St. Louis School of Medicine

Women who have sex with women can transmit STD's and HIV. HIV may be transmitted by oral sex especially during menses or if there is any inflammation present such as open lesions. My guess is that your risk is very low but it is not zero. I... Read more »

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AIDS IN WOMEN

Posted by Anonymous

Hi everyone, I am doing a project for my final term report on Aids and women. I need to interview someone about AIDS, and how it has affected their lives it would be absolutely amazing if anybody can help me, with perhaps letting me interview them,... Read more »

Would like to profile women w/HIV/AIDS for TV.

Posted by Anonymous, 3 Replies

I am working on a national television show called Lifetime Live. It is a news show for women: I would like to provide the opportunity to two women with AIDS to tell their stories: a young woman in her teens and an older professional woman. Please... Read more »

Women don't get Aids unless they are drug users

Posted by Anonymous, 1 Reply

I was a drug user and was "labelled" hiv positive (meaning I had the antibodies against hiv which usually under every other disease means you are immune) anyway, it almost killed me when I started taking those toxic pills. aAnd then I decided to... Read more »

Living with HIV/AIDS today

Posted by Anonymous, 10 Replies

Hi!
I am a student filmmaker working on a Community Based Media Project intended to be about, by and for people affected by and/or infected with HIV/AIDS.
In looking to include the community in the process I would like to ask (with gratitude) for... Read more »

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