Women Overrepresented Among Young Persons With AIDS

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Women Overrepresented Among Young Persons With AIDS

Reuters (12/27/96)

Abstract: An analysis of the more than 37,000 AIDS cases diagnosed in New York City between 1984 and 1993 found that most of the young people diagnosed with AIDS were women and that women developed AIDS at a higher rate than young heterosexual men. Dr. Marcelo Pagano and colleagues at Harvard's School of Public Health reported that by 1993 the majority of AIDS patients under 30 were women, and that most of these young women had contracted the disease heterosexually. The researcher also noted a "youth-gender effect among black persons with AIDS," leading him to conclude that "women are overrepresented among younger persons with AIDS, particularly persons of color."

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