By Carole A. Campbell

Carole Campbell examines the placement of girls within the AIDS epidemic (women residing with HIV, and girls taking care of HIV-infected relatives) in a sociocultural context. Campbell attracts a connection between women's chance of AIDS, gender roles (particularly adolescent gender function socialization), and male sexual habit, demonstrating that efforts to include the unfold of the illness to ladies also needs to aim the male habit that places ladies in danger. This examine concludes that in comparison with males, HIV-infected girls face unequal entry to care and unequal caliber of care. proficient through the relocating own debts of 11 HIV-infected women and men, this publication deals an extraordinary, large photograph of the sociocultural factors and the effect on American society of AIDS between girls.

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As shown in the table on transmission categories in children under 13 (Table 7), the remaining pediatric cases are distributed among the blood transfusion category (5%), the hemophilia transmission category (3%), and the undetermined risk category (2%). Table 8 shows a 29 Women, Families, and HIV/AIDS Table 7. S. pediatrie AIDS cases Cumulative No. Exposure Category Hemophilia/coagulation disorder Mother with/at risk for HIV infection Recipient of blood transfusion, blood components, or tissue Undetermined risk Total Total (%) 233 (3) 7,335 (91) 374 144 (5) 8,086 (100) (2) "< 13 years old.

1991). The first study just cited examined the impact of HIV on the clinical course of PID and found that HIV-positive women with PID have a more severe clinical course than those who are HIV negative. Women with HIV disease are also at high risk for cervical dysplasia, a precursor lesion for cervical cancer. , 1989). Moreover, human papillomavirus has been linked to cervical dysplasia. Immunosuppressed HIV-infected women appear to be at greater risk for acquisition, progression, and recurrence of HPV-related cervical lesions.

As indicated in Table 6, women have always had a larger percentage than men of cases due to undetermined risk. Women are more likely than men to be reported with heterosexual undetermined risk because the women are less likely to know about die risk behavior of their partners (CDC, 1995). In addition, health care providers may not recognize risk behaviors of women and their partners. Many women do not see themselves at risk for HIV and, upon learning that they are seropositive, experience a stronger denial reaction than men who engage in risk-related behavior (as cited in Stuntzner-Gibson, 1991).

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