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This 3 page paper discusses the threat posed by HIV/AIDS to women living in Washington, D.C. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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on Women notes that the HIV/AIDS epidemic "continues to take a brutal toll on women and girls" because of they remain unequal to men in social standing; it is their
inequality that is the "principal driver of the epidemic" (HIV and AIDS). The vulnerabilities unique to women, in particular "gendered power differentials" - meaning of course that men still hold
the power in society - means that health care for women if often inferior; in the case of HIV/AIDS it means they have trouble accessing information on the prevention of
AIDS as well as its treatment (HIV and AIDS). The fact that women are "second class citizens" when it comes to health care can be easily demonstrated by the fact
that for years, studies on heart health were done on men only, and the results applied to both sexes. Only recently has medical science realized that if they want to
understand heart problems in women, they should study women. The nations capital should be a model for the rest of the country, but instead its a disgrace; it has the
"highest HIV/AIDS rate in the United States" (A Capitol offense: The gender dimensions of Washington D.C.s HIV/AIDS crisis, 2009; hereafter "A Capitol offense, 2009"). In responding to the crisis, the
city government has not recognized the way in which "policies, and structural factors have interacted to increase womens vulnerability to HIV/AIDS" (A Capitol offense, 2009). Because of this failure, women
"have one of the fastest growing rates of HIV infections in D.C." (A Capitol offense, 2009). The problem appears to be that the District has "no integrated and multi-sectoral HIV
Policy" and those policies that are in place dont include a strategy specifically designed to help women facing the HIV/AIDS epidemic (A Capitol offense, 2009). Among the problems unique to
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