[AIDS' feminization: a question of gender?].
Based on the data presented in the AIDS Epidemical Report published by the Health State Department, we notice that throughout the trajectory of this epidemic in our country, the data relating to women remained invisible (although present), the vulnerability of feminine population was hidden amongst the other categories, and that shows the need of understanding AIDS as a disease of both men and women, and its prevention, thought and improved within a perspective of gender.
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EEUSP, Grupo de Estudos sobre Saúde da Mulher da EEUFBa-GE.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000517:prevention & control; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D017678:Sex Distribution; D012737:Sex Factors