bob@ozdaltx.UUCP (Bob Culmer) (01/31/91)
In article <1991Jan30.051548.24012@cs.ucla.edu>, ATRXW@ASUACAD (Rose Weitz) writes: > I have read that the number of months between diagnosis and death is > shorter for women than for men. I would like to find some statistics > or documentation for this. Any ideas? Also, I need to know what particular > opportunistic illnesses are most common among women with HIV disease, and > how the virus expresses itself differently in women. I need citations for > this as well. The quickest citation I can provide is the National AIDS Information Clearinghouse, which you can reach at (800) 458-5231. The _AIDS Update_ (publication of the AIDS Resource Center in Dallas) recently had an article on this. I don't have the particulars handy - but a clipping I do have lists the Clearinghouse number above and it was mentioned in connection with gathering and disseminating more information about HIV and women. If you will permit a recollection (potentially incomplete) from my recent readings - the women seemed to have a statistically shorter life expectancy due largely to the delay in diagnosing their condition as HIV disease. The defining symptoms and opportunistic infections of AIDS (dating back to a time when its cause was unknown) are tilted toward the symptoms males tend to exhibit. I believe the article said that persistent yeast infections and other pelvic inflammations were the most common early expression of HIV disease. Unfortunately, these are not particularly unique to HIV. Hope this heads you in the right direction. -- Bob Culmer - Dallas | "Oh no, my dear, I'm a very good man. Somewhere over the rainbow | I'm just a very bad Wizard." ...in the Land of OZ | {mic,void,egsner}!ozdaltx!bob