title: Transitioning through AIDS epidemics - gender and temporality.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To understand the evolution of AIDS over time in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil, using incidence, lethality, and mortality coefficients.
  
  
  METHODS
  A descriptive epidemiological study based on time series analysis of secondary data from the Notifiable Diseases Information System reported between 1985 and 2012.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The prevalence of AIDS was higher among men, with evidence of feminization during the first 14 years of the epidemic. There was no statistically significant sex difference in AIDS lethality. Women were 1.3 times more likely to survive than men.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Gender differences must be considered when designing new HIV/AIDS prevention strategies.
authors.affiliation: Health Department of the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil. Electronic address: claricepm@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Clarice Souza
authors.initials: CS
authors.lastname: Pinto
authors.affiliation: Biological and Health Science Center, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Carlos Eurico
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Dos Santos Fernandes
authors.affiliation: Universidade Estadual de Mato Grosso do Sul, Dourados, MS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roberto Dias de
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Oliveira
authors.affiliation: Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Vanessa Terezinha Gubert de
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Matos
authors.affiliation: Biological and Health Science Center, Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Campo Grande, MS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Ana Rita Coimbra
authors.initials: AR
authors.lastname: Motta de Castro
mesh_terms: D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000401:mortality; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D018563:Disease Notification; D058872:Epidemics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: Aids; Incidence; Lethality; Mortality