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From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
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Subject: Women with AIDS
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Date: 7 Jun 91 20:02:27 GMT
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A few items from a New York Times report on a Congressional hearing
about women with AIDS on 6/6/91:

Rep. Ted Weiss (D-NY) said that about 40% of those who are known to
be HIV-positive in New York City are women.

The Social Security Administration has not changed its definition
of AIDS to include many disabling symptoms that affect only women,
despite a recommendation in March to broaden the definition to include
such symptoms as cervical cancer, candidiasis and pelvic inflammatory
disease.

One witness noted that if a poor person is HIV-positive and has a
single KS lesion, the SSA automatically begins paying disablity
benefits when applied for.  But if a woman is HIV-positive and has
had bouts of bacterial pneumonia, the beginnings of cervical cancer,
pelvic inflammatory disease and a severely depleted immune system,
she does not automatically qualify.

Women, on average, die of AIDS in half the time of men with the
disease.
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