Women are particularly at risk of HIV

March 7th, 2012

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Experts in the field HIV / AIDS As well as representatives of the United Nations Programme of the disease on the eve of March 8 decided to discuss the problem of the spread of HIV among women of Central Asia and Eastern Europe.

According to Natalia, okay, a senior researcher of the Federal Center AIDS , In November of last year in Russia there were more than 600 thousand people living with HIV, of which almost 30% - women.

Since 2002, the proportion of women among the total number of registered began to grow. According to experts, today there is an active process of heterosexual transmission. More women are diagnosed with HIV does not belong to the classical risk: most have one partner (husband), and a third will learn about the disease at the time pregnancy . This is due to the particular vulnerability of women to virus In addition, many women are subjected to economic vulnerability, fear of violence, difficulties in negotiating on safe sex with your partner and other problems.

In addition, experts have been marked successes in the field of vertical transmission, ie from mother to child. Such advances can be regarded as the result of the effective use of antiretroviral therapy . However, to completely defeat this type of transmission of the virus hampered by the fact that not all pregnant women with HIV get in the account at the time. Another challenge is to ensure that HIV-positive mothers milk substitutes.

Thus, as experts note, to date, most of the problems with the spread of HIV among women are ideological in nature. And for each of these problems are unique.