Why is there so much concern for AIDS in women and none for men when most of the victims are men?

Question

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Answer 1

http://www.thebody.com/women/resource/

women are more likely to catch AIDS than hetero men.

Answer 2

Homophobia and societal disapproval of drug users contribute to the indifference towards male victims of AIDS in many countries. It was a reason AIDS was ignored for a long time in the US. In the US, there's been a huge increase in African-American women contracting AIDS from bisexual, but closeted black men and drug users, so there's been a new focus on educating the black community about the costs of homophobia for both black men and women. Worldwide, the other posters are correct, many children are born with AIDS, so much work has focused on helping pregnant women. A lot of the new cases of AIDS are now occuring in Africa and Asia. The UN says about 15 million women have AIDS, and about 15 million men have AIDS, along with 2.5 million children. Both men and women are suffering about the same from AIDS: http://data.unaids.org/pub/EPISlides/2007/2007_epiupdate_en.pdf

Answer 3

As the above poster wrote< women bear children and a mother with AIDS tends to bear a child with AIDS. Checking the virus rate in men would assist the solution though.
To the first answerer, the idea that heterosexual men have smaller chance of contracting HIV is total nonsense. The rate of infection in the heterosexual population is at epidemic proportions. Do some research on the topic.

Answer 4

Because women have children, so it could be passed on to them. Once you have AIDS, there isn't currently any cure, so the main priority is protecting those who are at risk of contracting it. If AIDS is reduced in women, it is reduced in children. It's not sexist, it's just biological fact.

Answer 5

I think most of the concern is for children than for women. Most of these children contracted AIDS through their mothers' breast milk, blood transfusions, or through sexual abuse.

Answer 6

because the victims are gay men and drug using men. Hetro men have almost no chance of getting AIDS. If you think they do please write me a list of the hetro men who have died in the last 25 years from AIDS.....

Answer 7

Women are not interested in anything that affects men.

What does that tell you about feminism?