Men Make A Difference.
The AIDS epidemic is increasingly female, young, and poor. Only 40 percent of women in India have heard of AIDS, according to results just released from the 1998-99 National Family Health Survey. Among these women, one-third still do not know any way to avoid the disease. More people died of AIDS in 1999 than in any previous year. The 2.6 million deaths in 1999 brought the estimated total number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic to 16.3 million.