1. Young women are more prone to getting HIV/AIDS through unprotected sex.
2. 75 percent of the AIDS cases in women and girls are associated with use of injected drugs and sexual contact with a man who injected drugs.
3. AIDS is the fourth leading cause of death among women between the ages of 25 and 44 in the United States.
4. AIDS is number one cause of death among African American women in the same age group.
5. The transmission of AIDS occur mostly during vaginal intercourse due to vaginal fluid.
6. A pregnant woman infected with HIV/AIDS can transmit the virus to her unborn baby and thus due precaution be taken before the birth of the child.
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AIDS RECOMMENDED READING
- AIDS and the new Orphans:Coping with the death by by Barbara O. Dane, Carol Levine
- AIDS by Alexandra Juhasz, Catherine Gund
- AIDS in the World by Daniel J. M. Tarantola, M.D., D. Tarantola, Jonathan M. Mann, Thomas W. Netter
- AIDS Update 2002:An Annual Overview of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome by Gerald James Stine
- AIDS,Sexuality and Gender in Africa:Collective strategies and struggles in Tanzania and Zambia by Carolyn L. , Janet M. Bujra
- And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts
- Mozart in the Jungle: Sex, Drugs, and Classical Music by Blair Tindall
- Music At The Edge: The Music Therapy Experiences of a Musician with AIDS by Colin Lee
- Nutrition and HIV: A New Model for Treatment by Mary M.D. Romeyn
- The AIDS Crisis by Charles P. Cozic, Karin
- The AIDS Epidemic by Davidson C.
- The Amfar AIDS Handbook: The Complete Guide to Understanding HIV And AIDS by Darrell E. Ward
- The First Year--HIV: An Essential Guide for the Newly Diagnosed by Brett Grodeck
- The Guide to Living with HIV Infection: Developed at the Johns Hopkins AIDS Clinic (A Johns Hopkins Press Health Book) by John G. Bartlett
- The Invisible People: How the U.S. Has Slept Through the Global AIDS Pandemic, the Greatest Humanitarian Catastrophe of Our Time by Greg Behrman