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United Press International - August 8, 2009
The women had sought medical treatment in 2007 for AIDS-related illnesses, but at the time the doctors did not test them for HIV, which causes AIDS, The Local reported Saturday.
The four women eventually were diagnosed with late-stage AIDS and died within a year of the diagnosis, a study from Karolinska University, Stockholm said.
The women's cases were among 17 cases of African women in Sweden who had been infected through heterosexual contact and diagnosed late in their illness, Dr. Victoria Svedhem Johansson, the study's lead author, said.
Elisabeth Wall Bennet, an official with the Swedish Board of Health and Welfare, called the late-stage determinations unacceptable.
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