Health News from Medical News Today: Ontario Study Of HIV Infection Among Women

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Ontario Study Of HIV Infection Among Women 1 Jun 2011, 4:00 pm Despite significant clinical advances in HIV care, an estimated 25 per cent of new HIV infections in Ontario from 2006 to 2008 were among women, according to a health study by researchers from the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and St. Michael's Hospital. The researchers say 93 per cent of new infections among women are acquired through sexual transmission and seven per cent through injection drug use. About 60 per cent of newly infected women are immigrants... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.