Proportion of Mexican women with AIDS doubles from 5 years ago

Women now account for more than 20 percent of Mexico’s 112,000 AIDS cases, a huge jump from the 10 percent five years ago, local radio reported on Wednesday.

The figure was “both sensitive and serious,” said the country’s Secretary of Health Jose Angel Cordoba Villalobos.

He said the infection trend suggested that HIV-carriers who do not know their status are spreading the disease to their partners.”*

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