Women are more physically susceptible to HIV infection than men'

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• Women are more physically susceptible to HIV
  infection than men.

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• Data from a number of studies suggest that
  male-to-female transmission during sex is about
  twice as likely to occur as female-to-male
  transmission, if no other sexually transmitted
  infections are present.

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• Young women are biologically more susceptible to
  infection than older women before menopause.

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25 years later

• 20 million people are dead and 37.8 million
  people (range 34.642.3 million) worldwide are
  living with HIV.

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• The epidemic is affecting young people
  disproportionately 1524-year-olds account for
  half of all new HIV infections worldwide

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• In low- and middle-income countries in 2003, only
  one in ten pregnant women was offered services
  for preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission.

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• 4.8 million people were newly infected in 2003
• 4.1 million adults
• 630,000 children

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In Sub-Saharan Africa

• An estimated 3,000,000 people in that region
  alone became newly infected in 2003

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• Countries in Eastern Europe and East Asia are
  experiencing the fastest growing HIV epidemic in
  the world.

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• AIDS is the most globalized epidemic in history.

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• Globally, nearly half of all persons infected
  between the ages of 15-49 are women.

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• In Africa, the proportion is reaching 60 of
  those infected (are women).

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• Because of gender inequality, women living with
  HIV or AIDS often experience greater stigma and
  discrimination.