Women and HIV Infection

from the VA AIDS Information Newsletter

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  1. (June 3, 1994)
    • AIDS Focus Slowly Turning Toward Women (American Medical News, 3/94)
    • Women and AIDS (FDA Consumer, 10/93)
    • Women and AIDS: What You Don't Know Can Hurt You (FDA Consumer, 10/93)
    • Women and HIV/AIDS (CDC Hotline Training Bulletin, 12/93)
    • Women's Interagency HIV Study Begins (HHS News, 6/93)
    • Women - Epidemiology, Selected References
  2. (June 17, 1994)
    • Current Trends: Heterosexually Acquired AIDS -- United States, 1993 (MMWR, 43:155, 1994)
    • 13 Million HIV Positive Women by 2000 (2nd International Conference on HIV in Children and Mothers, 9/93)
  3. (July 1, 1994)
    • NIAID Epidemiologic Studies of Women With HIV/AIDS (NIAID Backgrounder, 4/94)
      • More Information Needed
      • Observational Database
      • HIV Transmission to Women
      • Symptoms and Diagnosis
      • NIAID Clinical Studies
      • Antiretroviral Therapies
      • Other Studies
      • Perinatal Transmission
      • Strategies to Prevent Perinatal Transmission
      • For More Information About Trials
  4. (July 15, 1994)
    • AIDS-Related Behavior Among Women 15-44 Years of Age: United States, 1988 and 1990 (CDC, 12/93)
    • HIV Risk Among Women Who Have Sex With Women (San Francisco Epidemiologic Bulletin, 4/93)
    • Update: Epidemiology of Reported Cases of AIDS in Women Who Report Sex Only with Other Women, United States, 1980-1991 (AIDS 6:518, 1992)
  5. (July 29, 1994)
    • WOMEN AND HIV: IXTH International Conference on AIDS Highlights (NIH, NIAID, 6/93)
      • HIV-infected women more likely to use condoms, reduce risk of transmitting virus
      • Couples don't always agree on whether or not they use condoms
      • Mom's use of cocaine is more harmful to baby than her HIV infection
      • Efforts to boost women's enrollment in clinical trials meet with success
    • Women and AIDS: Treatment, Prevention, Drug Use (FDA Consumer, 10/93)
    • Hospital Mortality Higher for Women than Men with HIV-Related PCP (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 11/93)
    • Women with AIDS Receive Fewer Services than Men with AIDS (Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 12/93)
  6. (August 12, 1994)
    • Women and AIDS: Safer Sex (FDA Consumer, 10/93)
    • Statement by the Food and Drug Administration (Female Condom) (HHS, 4/93)
    • Reality the Female Condom (Wisconsin Pharmacal Company, 1992)
    • Female Condom Approved (FDA Bulletin, 6/93)
    • Female Condom Approved for Market (New York Times, 5/93)
    • Packaging Reality: Is the Female Condom Better Than We've Been Told? (Village Voice, 5/93)
    • Female Condom--FDA (AP, 12/93)
    • Female Condom Is Winning Favor (New York Times, 12/93)
    • Female Condom Found Effective in Study (Boston Globe, 4/94)
    • Reality Condom (Across the Board, 5/94)
    • First Female Condoms Shipped (UPI, 7/94)
    • Marketing Female Condom Is a Challenge (Wall Street Journal, 7/94)
  7. (August 26, 1994)
    • New Drug Labels Provide Warning (FDA Consumer, 10/93)
    • Yeast Infections An Early Warning of HIV Infection (FDA, 11/92)
    • New Labeling to Provide Information About Contraceptives and STDs (FDA, 4/93)
    • New Labeling To Provide Information About Contraceptives and STDs (FDA, 6/93)
    • Vaginal Yeast Infections and AIDS (CDC, 6/92)
    • Vaginal Yeast Infections and AIDS (CDC, 12/92)
    • Vaginal Yeast Infections and AIDS (CDC, 3/93)
  8. (September 9, 1994)
    • AIDS Definition Revised (FDA Consumer, 10/93)
    • Invasive Cervical Cancer (MMWR, 92)
    • Invasive Cervical Cancer (CDC, 8/93)
    • Cervical Disease - References
  9. (September 23, 1994)
    • Cervical Cancer Screening for Women Who Attend STD Clinics or Who Have a History of STDs (CDC, 9/93)
    • Treatment of an Abnormal Pap Smear (PWAC/NY, 1/94)
  10. (October 7, 1994)
    • Women in Clinical Trials (FDA, 12/93)
    • Women in Clinical Studies (10/93)
    • Women in Clinical Trials (FDA Consumer, 10/93)
    • FDA Guideline on Women in Clinical Trials (JAMA, 9/93)
    • FDA Guideline on Women in Clinical Trials (HHS, 7/93)
    • FDA Plans Policy Change on Women in Clinical Trials (FDA, 4/93)
    • Additional reading material
  11. (October 21, 1994)
    • NIH Guidelines on the Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Biomedical and Behavioral Research (3/94)
    • NIAID Begins Clinical Trials of Therapeutic AIDS Vaccine Candidates in Pregnant Women Who Are HIV-Infected (5/93)
  12. (November 4, 1994)
    • Women and AIDS: Mother and Child--The HIV Connection (FDA, 10/93)
    • HIV Survey in Childbearing Women (CDC, 6/94)
  13. (November 18, 1994)
    • Zidovudine for the Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mother to Infant (MMWR)
    • Task Force to Study Implications of AZT in Pregnancy (NIH, 5/94)
    • Ethical Challenges Posed by Zidovudine Treatment to Reduce Vertical Transmission of HIV (N. Engl. j. med. 11/94)
    • Mother and Child and AZT
  14. (December 2, 1994)
    • Epidemiologic Notes and Reports: Birth Outcomes Following Zidovudine Therapy in Pregnant Women (MMWR, 94)
    • AZT Seen Helping To Lower Transmission During Pregnancy (10th Int. Conf. on AIDS 1994)
    • AZT Decreases HIV Transmission from Mother to Newborn (10th Int. Conf. on AIDS 1994)
  15. (December 16, 1994)
    • Health Care Delivery, Zidovudine Use, and Survival of Women and Men with AIDS (J AIDS, 1994)
    • Survival For Women and Men With AIDS, San Francisco 1981-1990 (SF Dept Public Health, 10/92)
    • Disease Progression (CDC, 3/93)
  16. (December 30, 1994)
    • Abstracts from the XTH International Conference of AIDS - 1994
  17. (January 13, 1995)
    • Abstracts from the XTH International Conference of AIDS - 1994
  18. (January 27, 1995)
    • HIV-Infected Women Have Increased Risk of Death, Not Disease Progression (NIAID, 12/94)
    • Nutritional Considerations for Women with HIV (San Francisco AIDS Fouundation, 12/94)
  19. (February 10, 1995)
    • Women's Health Resources on the Internet (see also the original web document Guide to Women's Health Issues)
  20. (February 25, 1995)
    • Audiovisual Information
      • AIDS: The Women Speak.
      • Are You Positive? HIV Testing for Women
      • Belinda
      • HIV Infection in Women: Issues in Counseling, Testing, and Management
      • AIDS, Me and My Baby.
      • AIDS: What Every Woman Should Know.
      • Alicia.
      • Changing Focus: Women, Children and AIDS.
      • Choices: HIV Testing for Women and Children.
      • Dying for Love.
      • Fighting for Our Lives: Women Confronting AIDS.
  21. (March 10, 1995)
    • Audiovisual Information
      • The Forgotten People: Latinas With AIDS.
      • HIV in Women: Conference Held in Minneapolis, MN, October 15
      • HIV Infection in Childbearing Years.
      • I'm Not Afraid of Me: The Barbara Bryon Story.
      • (In) Visible Women.
      • It Won't Happen to Me.
      • The Physical Examination of the Female Patient.
      • A Test of a Nation: Women, Children, Families and AIDS.
      • The time to Know: Women, Children & AIDS.
      • Women & AIDS.
      • Women & AIDS: An End to Business as Usual.
      • Women & AIDS: Keeping Women in Focus.
      • Women and AIDS: A Survival Kit.
      • Women and AIDS: Deadly Denial.
      • Women and HIV: Pregnancy and Beyond.
  22. (March 24, 1995)
    • Monographs
      • Women & AIDS
      • Women and AIDS: A Practical Guide for Those Who Help Others.
      • AIDS: The Women.
      • Women and AIDS: The Silent Epidemic.
      • Reality (WPC-333): A Condom for Women to Wear.
      • Women and AIDS.
      • Women, AIDS, and Activism.
      • Women and AIDS: A Resource Guide.
      • AIDS Information for Women.
      • Living With HIV: A Guide for Women.
      • Triple Jeopardy: Women and AIDS.
      • AIDS Information for Women.
      • AIDS, Women and The Next Generation.
      • AIDS: Women, Drugs and Social Care.
      • Women, HIV, Drugs: Practical Issues.
      • Women, HIV, Drugs: Criminal Justice Issues.
      • Romance to Die for: The Starting Truth About Women, Sex and AIDS.
      • Unjust Punishments: Mandatory HIV Testing of Women Sex Workers and Pregnant Women.
      • Women and AIDS: A Challenge for Canada in the Nineties; A Framework for AIDS Education Programs.
      • Until the Cure: Caring for Women With HIV.
      • Women and AIDS: Psychological Perspectives.
      • HIV/AIDS Work Group on Health Care Access Issues for Women.
  23. (April 7, 1995)
    • Frequently-Asked Questions about HIV/AIDS and Women
  24. (April 21, 1995)
    • Monographs
      • AIDS and Women: A Sourcebook
      • Gynecological Care Manual for HIV-Positive Women
      • AIDS: Women, Drugs and Social Care
      • Women and HIV Disease: Falling Through the Cracks.
      • Positive Women: Voices of Women Living with AIDS
      • Working with Women and AIDS: Medical, Social, and Counselling Issues
      • AIDS, Women, and the Next Generation: Towards a Morally Acceptable Public Policy for HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns
      • Until the Cure: Caring for Women with HIV
      • Primary Care of Women and Children with HIV Infection: A Multidisciplinary Approach
      • Psychological Perspectives on Women's Health
  25. (May 5, 1995)
    • A Selected Guide to Resources About Women and HIV/AIDS: A Pathfinder
      • Newsletters Focusing on Women
      • Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report Articles
      • Journal Articles
      • Educational Materials
      • Organizations With A National Focus
      • Electronic Bulletin Boards and Internet Resources
[email protected] (Mon May 29 22:23:51 1995)