. 62%, p = 0.002). Women and men had similar numbers of primary care visits, emergency room visits, annual admission rates, and lengths of stay for hospitalizations. Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia prophylaxis, pneumococcal vaccination, and tuberculosis screening were also similar between women and men. Women were more likely than men to have ever been prescribed an antiretroviral agent (88.0% vs. 71.8%, p = 0.005).