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HIV and AIDS and Women Today in the United States the HIV/AIDS epidemic represents a growing and persistent health threat to women, especially young women and women of color. Early in the epidemic, HIV infection and AIDS were diagnosed for relatively few women. In 2002, HIV infection was the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25 to 34 years and was among the four leading causes of death for African American women aged 20 to 24 and 35 to 44 years, as well as Hispanic women aged 35 to 44 years. Overall, in the same year, HIV

HIV and Insect Transmission From the beginning of the HIV epidemic, there was concern about transmission of the virus by biting and bloodsucking insects. Studies conducted by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and elsewhere have shown no evidence of HIV transmission through insects - even in areas where there are many cases of AIDS and large populations of insects, such as mosquitoes. Lack of such outbreaks, despite intense efforts to detect them, supports the conclusion that HIV is not transmitted by insects. The