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Older women and HIV/AIDS facts.

Publication: WORLD
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

Article Excerpt
* About 18 percent of AIDS cases in the U.S. female population are said to be in women older than age 50; and numbers of cases are expected to increase as women of all ages survive longer due to improved drug therapy and other treatment advances.

* In the last decade, AIDS cases in women over 50 were reported to have tripled, while heterosexual transmission rates in this age group may have increased as much as 106 percent.

* "Older women," according to UNAIDS, "appear to have higher incidence than older men, and during a recent 5-year period, the number of new cases in this group increased by 40 percent. More than half of the infected over 50 are of African-American and Hispanic origin, indicating greater risks among minority groups."

* In the U.S., elder African American women...

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