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Women and HIV
Women living with HIV represent around half of the total population living with the virus. For these women HIV presents a number of specific challenges and difficulties relating both to their sex and gender. It is the intention of this chapter to present some of these challenges and difficulties and to acknowledge those problems unique to women.