When women find out that they are infected, they do not react with action or anger, the way that many people who have support, knowledge, and expectations react. In this culture, in this country, being women means that you take responsibility for everybody and everything. The result of this social situation is that women are always going to be last. Emergency Rooms Women who have limited education and resources aren't accustomed to using the health care system. Women's primary care is in public clinics with long lines and strange rules.
Care comes too often through emergency rooms.
Too many women are still ending up being admitted to emergency rooms and dying within a month of an AIDS diagnosis. A fair proportion of them are postpartum diagnosis. Women still don't recognize what alternatives there are for them. There's a critical difference between women getting into care and empowering them to become active participants in their own care. There are very limited alternatives to emergency services for women.