Women Interagency HIV Study

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Could there have been bias in the selection of the study subjects? How likely was this bias? using this The Women's Interagency HIV Study. As of December 1996, 85,500 cases of AIDS occurring among adolescent and adult women had been reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).1 Women accounted for 20% of AIDS cases reported in 1996,1 up from 7% (534 of 8,153) reported in 1984. The rate of increase reported among women be? tween 1990 and 1994 (89%) was more than three times the increase reported among men (29%).2 AIDS continues to increase among women of color, with 1994 rates double those of Hispanic/Latina women and 17 times those among white women.2 Increasingly, women are acquiring human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) heterosexually, with cases attributable to heterosexual contact growing in 1994 by 146%, as compared with 59% AIDS incidence growth among women who use injectable drugs.2 By 1995, HIV infection had become the third leading cause of death among all U.S. women ages 25-44 years and the leading cause of death among African-American women of this age group.3 Key areas in which cohort studies have contributed to an understanding of the natural history of HIV infection.

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