HIV and Women: When Words Speak Louder Than Actions
Michael Gross, PhD, Associate Editor
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Less than 2 years afterAIDS was identified among gay men in the United States, caseswere diagnosed among women whose only apparent source of exposurewas sex with men who had AIDS or who were at high risk, foretellingthe horror to come: heterosexual sex transmits the disease too(
Harris C, Small CB, Klein RS, et al. Immunodeficiency infemale sexual partners of men with the acquired immunodeficiencysyndrome. N Engl J Med. 1983;308:11811184[Abstract]). Ten yearslater, in 1993, the executive director of the World Health OrganizationsGlobal Program on AIDS told . . . [Full Text]
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