title: HIV infection: the issues for women and children.
abstract: HIV is now a worldwide pandemic, affecting some ten million adults and one million children--the overwhelming majority from sub-Saharan Africa. In Africa equal numbers of men and women are infected: in Europe just ten per cent of all cases of Aids are among women and two per cent among children.
authors.forename: M L
authors.initials: ML
authors.lastname: Newell
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy; D015528:HIV Seroprevalence; D015497:HIV-1; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male