Three factors of female HIV infection

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AIDS is a terrible sexually transmitted disease, mainly through blood, sexual behavior and mother to child transmission. Because women are too passive in some aspects, they are easy to be infected with AIDS. So why are women vulnerable to HIV?

Three factors of female HIV infection

First: drug use - usually, we think of typical drug users as men. In fact, many injecting drug users are women. The vast majority of drug addicted women will rely on sex trade to obtain drug money, and they are also easy to get AIDS through sharing needles. In addition, with the needle drug men are also very easy to bring HIV to his wife at home.

Second: sexual violence - in some places, sexual violence against women is rampant. For example, South Africa is one of the countries with the most sexual violence in the world, and the number of people living with HIV is also very large. In some African countries, there are rumors that sexual intercourse with virgins can cure AIDS, so many young girls and girls are raped and infected with AIDS. In some unstable areas, such as Uganda, Sudan and Zimbabwe, extreme racists infected with AIDS even deliberately raped women to make them sick in order to achieve the purpose of ethnic cleansing.

Third: mother to child - another way of transmission of AIDS is through mother to child vertical transmission. According to the data of the United Nations AIDS program and the World Health Organization, by the end of 2003, it is estimated that 2.1 million children (under the age of 15) around the world were infected with AIDS, many of them were infected from their mothers. Most of these children do not live to adulthood. Although there are drugs that can reduce the probability of mother to child transmission from 40% to about 2%, due to various objective factors, women in many countries and regions can not get the drugs.

matters needing attention

These women are not only at the bottom of the despised society, but also face the negation of the law. Many times, in order to hide their occupation and escape the legal sanctions, even if they get sick, they dare not go to the formal medical institutions.