Women now account for one-third of the ten million people with the HIV infection worldwide. On World AIDS Day in
December 1990, the
World Health Organization estimated that three million women are currently HIV infected and are expected to die by the year 2000. Yet women have found that the information available often does not apply to them, that most services are geared towards men, and that doctors and other professionals are often unprepared for the particular issues that women raise.
Working with Women and AIDS fills this important gap by addressing a number of questions of relevance to those working with women. Are women more likely to be infected heterosexually than men? What are the…
