TY - JOUR AU - Weitz, Rose PY - 2010/04/26 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - WOMEN AND AIDS JF - TRAILS: Teaching Resources and Innovations Library for Sociology JA - TRAILS VL - IS - SE - DO - UR - https://trails.asanet.org/article/view/women-and-aids SP - AB - Since very early in the AIDS epidemic, doctors have known that women as well as men cancontract AIDS. According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, women comprise about half of all persons worldwide living with HIV, and 60 percent in sub-Saharan Africa. Even more stunning, two-thirds of young people (ages 15 to 24) living with HIV in South Africa and four-fifths of those in Kenya are female. ER -