SOWK 300 Computer Applications Erika D.

Stewart, MW September ,25, 2011

HIV/AIDS and African Women From. Chu, S.Y., Buehler, J.W., & Berkelman, R.L. (1990, July 11). Impact of the human immunodeficiency virus epidemic on morality in women of reproductive age, United States. Journal of the American Medical Association, 264 (2) , 225-229. For both black and whites women 15 to 44 years of age, death rates for HIV/AIDS have increased steadily since 1985. for black women, the age adjusted death rate increased from 4.4 per 100,000 in 1986 to 10.3 per 100,00 in 1988. for white women, the age adjusted death rate for HIV/AIDS increased from 0.6 per 100,00 in 1985 to 1.2 per 100,00 in 1988. the 1988 death rate for HIV/AIDS in black women 15 to 44 years of age was nine times the rate in white women of the same age. the majority of deaths in both black and white women occurred in women 25 to 34 years of age, for HIV- related deaths accounted for 10.6% of all death in 1988, respectively. If current mortality trends continue, AIDS can be expected to become one of the five leading causes of death by 1991. Because women infected with HIV are the major source if infection for infants with AIDS, these trends in AIDS mortality in women forecast the impact of the HIV epidemic on mortality in children as well. As the number of pediatric cases increase the medical and social costs will bestaggering. Babies infected with HIV cost the Medicaid system $18,000 to $42,000 a year. In 1989, there were 2,825 new cases of AIDS among women of reproductive age. Table 1 - Deaths Attribute to HOV?AIDS in Women 15 to 44 Years of Age, United States, 1980 Through 1988.

Year 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988

No. of Death 18 30 36 92 198 360 631 1016 1430

Deaths Rates 0.03 0.06 0.07 0.17 0.35 0.63 1.1 1.75 2.46

Age- Adjusted Death Rates 0.03 0.06 0.06 0.16 0.34 0.6 1.02 1.62 2.24