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Gender and AIDS - WHO
1 Paper prepared for the WHO monographon Gender Analysis of Health, Gender and AIDSByMichel GarenneandNathalie Lydi Revised,July 2nd, 2001 Address for correspondence:Mr. Michel Garenne, CEPED, 15 rue de l Ecole de M decine, 75270 Paris, FranceTel. +33-1-44-41-82-34, Fax. +33-1-44-41-82-31, email: for quotation-2 AbstractThe paper reviews empirical evidence of Gender differences in HIV prevalence, incidence andmortality as well as possible risk factors. For HIV/ aids cases and deaths among adults other thanthose due to heterosexual transmission, there seems to be an overwhelming excess of males. For aids among children, there seems to be a small excess of males over females overall, and a small excess offemales over males for perinatal transmission.
3 Introduction More than 20 years after the beginning of the HIV pandemic, the issue of differences between males and females in HIV/AIDS remains complex and controversial.
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