Journal article
Clarification of AIDS Mortality in Women
JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.265(15), pp.1952-1952
17 Apr 1991
PMID: 2008022
Featured in Collection : UN Sustainable Development Goals @ Drexel
Abstract
To the Editor.—In our recently published study in JAMA,1 we documented the rapidly increasing effect of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection on mortality in young women. We also noted that 35% of death certificates in women 15 to 44 years of age that indicated HIV infection or the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) also listed specific AIDS-indicator illnesses. These data have been misinterpreted as evidence that only 35% of HIV-infected women who die have an AIDS-defining illness and that the surveillance case definition is less inclusive of women than men.In fact, the number of women who were reported to the Centers for Disease Control with AIDS-defining illness and who died in 1987 exceeds the number of deaths in 1987 in women that were attributed to HIV or AIDS on death certificates (Figure). The misinterpretation may reflect a confusion about the differences between the information available from vital statistics
Metrics
2 Record Views
Details
- Title
- Clarification of AIDS Mortality in Women
- Creators
- Ruth L BerkelmanSusan Y ChuKaren FarizoJames W Buehler
- Publication Details
- JAMA : the journal of the American Medical Association, Vol.265(15), pp.1952-1952
- Publisher
- American Medical Association; CHICAGO
- Number of pages
- 1
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Health Management and Policy
- Identifiers
- 991021895675704721
UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
This output has contributed to the advancement of the following goals:
InCites Highlights
These are selected metrics from InCites Benchmarking & Analytics tool, related to this output
- Web of Science research areas
- Medicine, General & Internal