HIV has been a steadily increasing disease in the United States over the last twenty years. In the past year alone two million new women have become infected with the disease while eighteen point five were already carriers. Roughly one point one million women died last year due to this tragic illness. IT is sad to see that the death rate for women is up three percent while it males its currently down by about fifteen percent. Why do we think this is?
Many of the new pills and treatments that are being put out on today's market have only been tested on men so that when women go and purchase them for their own use they are proven non effective or leave severe side effects. Women only make up a mere twelve percent of all the clinical trails that are going on while they represent eighteen percent of this epidemic in the United States. Some say that it is easier for a female to go and get herself an ATZ (which is the prevention of transm
A woman by the name of Michelle Lopez, a positive AIDS activist talked about how happy she was that her gay brothers were dying at a much slower rate and have an easy access to all these new treatments but at the same time she was very upset that her death rates are going on and dying off faster. She says, "What is going on in the world that has both men and women who are infected and all you want to test are men?"
When taking time to look at other parts of the country you can see that three point five million became infected last year in the Sub Saharan Africa and fifty three percent of them were women. One million in Asia where thirty six percent were women and in the Pacific, roughly two hundred and fifty thousand in Eastern Asia resulting where twenty three percent of them were women.
New studies that are being tested upon five to ten men check to see how the drugs are absorbed and cleared by the body which influences toxicity, the cor
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