title: [HIV and the female gender: the psychological experience].
abstract: AIDS raises a social issue, humanitarian, legal, and threatens to change the social structure founding of tolerance and understanding, that sustains the life of our societies. From a clinical and epidemiological background of HIV/AIDS, this article of literature review makes an approach about psychological experience and implication of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus infection in pregnant woman.
authors.affiliation: Serviço de Puerpério e Ginecologia, Centro Hospitalar de Setúbal, Setúbal, Portugal.
authors.forename: Sílvia do Rosário Piteira Natário de
authors.initials: Sdo R
authors.lastname: Lourenço
authors.forename: Henrique Guilherme Martins
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: Afonso
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000523:psychology*; D012737:Sex Factors