HIV INCREASINGLY STRIKING WOMEN IN ASIA
Women in East Asia are contracting HIV at a faster rate than in the rest of the world, and theres a worrying new trend in Thailand: men who have visited prostitutes are increasingly passing on the infection to their wives, the United Nations says.
In many parts of the world, but particularly in Asia, more women than men are getting the disease because it has spread beyond the brothels where most infections occurred 12 years ago, said the latest global HIV status report published Tuesday.
Women have also seen higher rates of infection than men because it is easier for them to get HIV – the virus that causes AIDS – through heterosexual intercourse.
Some 2.3 million out of the 8.2 million people currently living with HIV in Asia are women – an increase of 56 percent since 2002. Nearly 50 percent of the 39.4 million people infected with HIV worldwide are women, according to the report.
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