AIDS in women: fatality or vulnerability?

Authors

  • María del Carmen Álvarez Escobar Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas.
  • Arnella Torres Álvarez Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas.
  • Arling Yuliett Torres Álvarez Policlínico Universitario Samuel Fernández. Matanzas.
  • José Alberto Alfonso de León Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas.
  • Lisset Méndez Fleitas Hospital Universitario Clínico Quirúrgico Comandante Faustino Pérez Hernández. Matanzas.

Keywords:

ACQUIRED INMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME, RISK FACTORS, RISK GROUPS, SEXUALITY, HUMANS, FEMALE, ADOLESCENT, ADULT

Abstract

Throughout the last years, the epidemiological profile of the HIV infection has changed: it has stopped being a disease of homosexuals and drug abusers, and now it is the disease that more affects young population, including women in their fertile age, conferring it a higher demographic and social transcendence. The increase of the number of infected women denotes a change in the dynamic of the epidemic at the national and international level, highlighting women's vulnerability to the infection. These women's high vulnerability is determined by several facts, associated to biological facts, their economic, educational and social condition, and also by the subordinated place they are in as a result of our sexual cultural construction and of the genre inequity socially established.

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Published

2010-09-15

How to Cite

1.
Álvarez Escobar M del C, Torres Álvarez A, Torres Álvarez AY, Alfonso de León JA, Méndez Fleitas L. AIDS in women: fatality or vulnerability?. Rev Méd Electrón [Internet]. 2010 Sep. 15 [cited 2025 Apr. 19];32(5):442-7. Available from: https://revmedicaelectronica.sld.cu/index.php/rme/article/view/758

Issue

Vol. 32 No. 5 (2010)

Section

Review article

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