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Brazilian Chemist Leads Battle Against HIV/AIDS
A woman chemist quit her job at a large pharmaceutical company to head her nation’s own effort to create generic Brazilian copies of patented, life-saving imports. Her skill helped the nation cut treatment costs by 70 percent and increase survival rates.
Women of Color With HIV/AIDS Virtually Invisible
Despite overall decline in new AIDS cases, the crisis rages on in virtual silence for women, especially women of color. Mothers, sisters, daughters, wives, even grandmothers, are being infected, overlooked and underserved. Some are fighting back.
Women With AIDS Seek More Funds
In New York, 76 percent of adults living with HIV/AIDS are people of color, and women of color constitute 89 percent of female adults living with it. Advocates say services for these women and their children are dramatically underfunded.
HIV/AIDS in Mature Women Jumps 40 percent
Menopausal and post-menopausal women remain sexually active and they may be much more susceptible to HIV/AIDS than younger women, but age prejudice may put blinders on health professionals who may mistake symptoms for those of natural aging.