AIDS Claiming More Females in Trinidad

Sorry, your browser doesn't suppor Java.	AIDS used to claim two men for every woman in Trinidad and Tobago. Today, seven out of eight young AIDS victims are female - a change that augurs an explosion of the disease in Latin America.In some American nations, up to 15% of AIDS patients are children infected by their mothers and born with the disease, said Dr. Fernando Zacarias, director of the Pan American Health Organization's AIDS program said. Trinidad's health minister, Hamza Rafeeq, noted that most male victims in Trinidad were aged 40-50 and most female ones 15-25, suggesting that "older men are having sex with young girls and infecting more than one of them." It is estimated that 1.6 million people are living with HIV in Latin America and the Caribbean and close to 1 million in the United States. Brazil was the only country that provides free of charge the antiretroviral therapy that can keep AIDS victims alive. Some 70,000 people are infected with the virus in the South American country of 170 million people. In January, Trinidad will start providing free treatment to pregnant AIDS victims to counter the increasing number of infected newborn babies. Researchers estimate that 400 of the 20,000 babies born in Trinidad last year were infected with the AIDS virus. HIV in Females - in what way it is different ?