For most married women, the major risk factor for HIV infection is being married. Each day a further three thousand women become infected, and five hundred infected women die. Most are between 15 and 35 years old.United Nations Development Program, 1992
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Farmer, P., Lindenbaum, S. & Good, MJ.D. Women, poverty and AIDS: An introduction. Cult Med Psych 17, 387–397 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01379306
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