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Statistics: Women and HIV/AIDS
- Women account for more than one in four new HIV/AIDS diagnoses and deaths caused by AIDS.
- The proportion of AIDS diagnoses reported among women has more than tripled since 1985.
- 71 percent of women diagnosed with AIDS in 2005 (the last year for which detailed data about women is available) contracted the disease through heterosexual sex.
- African Americans constituted 61 percent of women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2005.
- In 2005, girls represented 43 percent of AIDS cases reported among people aged 13 to 19.
- African Americans and Hispanics represent 24 percent of all women in the U.S. but they account for 82 percent of AIDS cases among women.
- African-American women have an HIV prevalence rate nearly 18 times that of white women.
- AIDS is the leading cause of death for African-American women aged 25 to 34.
AROUND THE GLOBE
- Worldwide, women constitute half of all people living with HIV/AIDS.
- For women in their reproductive years (15–44), HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death and disease worldwide.
- In every region of the world, more adult women (15 years or older) than ever before are now living with HIV.
- Women are at least twice as likely to acquire HIV from men during sexual intercourse than vice versa.
- Only 20 percent of young women aged 15 to 24 can correctly identify ways of preventing HIV transmission and reject major misconceptions about HIV transmission.
- In low- and middle-income countries, only one-third of pregnant women are currently offered services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
- In Sub-Saharan Africa, women constitute 59 percent of all people living with HIV/AIDS. Among young people aged 15-24, the HIV prevalence rate for young women is almost three times that of young men.
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