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Comprehensive & Cost Effective Laboratory Monitoring of HIV/AIDS: an African Role Model
Published on: October 31, 2010
HIV/AIDS in Women and Racial/Ethnic Minorities in the U.S
1Divisions of General Medicine and Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 55 Fruit Street, Bulfinch 130, Boston, MA, 02114, USA, vstone@partners.org.
Abstract:
The clinical issues affecting women with HIV/AIDS differ little from those affecting men. However, current research shows that treatment and outcome disparities affect many women with HIV, hypothesized to result from a complex interplay of socioeconomic and gender role influences. These disparities are also a reflection of racial/ethnic differences in treatment and outcome, since 80% of women with HIV/AIDS are black or Hispanic. Women have unique needs for HIV prevention - both prevention of sexual transmission to or from sexual partners and prevention of perinatal transmission. Racial/ethnic minorities continue to be disproportionately affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. Minorities are less likely to be in care and on HAART than others with HIV/AIDS. These disparities result in poorer outcomes for minorities, especially blacks, with HIV/AIDS. New strategies for optimizing engagement and retention in care, and for prevention hold great promise for women and minorities with HIV in the U.S.
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