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Joan Stephenson, PhD

JAMA. 2003;289:31-33.

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Early into the third decade of the HIV/AIDS pandemic, the virus continues to expand its reach across the globe. Not only is the pandemic affecting ever greater numbers of people—an estimated 42 million are now infected worldwide—it is also evolving such that for the first time since the disease emerged in the early 1980s, about half the people living with HIV are now women.

As United Nations officials indicated in their annual report on the pandemic, nearly half of the 4.2 million newly infected adults were women, and a disproportionate number of the 800 000 newly infected persons younger than 15 years were female.

An estimated 42 million people were living with HIV at the end of 2002, 70% of whom live in sub-Saharan Africa. (Photo credit: UNAIDS and WHO)

An estimated 5 million people were newly infected with HIV during 2002. (Photo credit: UNAIDS and WHO)

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