|Double Discrimination and Denial Facing Women with AIDS| New
York Newsday, December 1, 2002 By Mabel Bianco A United Nations
report released last week announced that women have caught up
with men as far as AIDS is concerned. Half the adults affected
with HIV worldwide are now women. This shouldn't come as much of
a surprise. It was just a matter of time before the disease
shifted from one originally affecting gay white men to one
transmitted heterosexually all over the world. Double
Discrimination and Denial Facing Women with AIDS In the past
decade, HIV infection rates for women in Latin America have
increased exponentially. In Argentina, for example, between 1988
and 2001, the infection rate changed from one woman for every 20
men to one woman for every three men. The majority of women
infected with HIV are heterosexual and do not use intravenous
drugs. Many are married or in long-term relationships. Others
are young women forced into the sex trade by poverty. Despite
the statistics, there has been no shif