"Data released in 2012 shows a shocking correlation between violence, trauma, and poor health outcomes of women living with HIV in the U.S. HIV-positive women face disproportionate rates of violence and abuse, which too frequently leads to medication failure and death. Yet the National HIV/AIDS Strategy and its accompanying implementation plan failed to articulate goals and objectives to address this fatal health disparity for women....
For instance, women living with HIV experience between two and six times higher rates of various types of child and adult sexual and physical abuse than the general population of women. Recent trauma is associated with over four times the likelihood of failing HIV treatment and almost four times the likelihood of being unable to negotiate or engage in safer sex. Ultimately, violence and trauma lead to higher death rates.
The U.S. Positive Women's Network, a national membership body of women living with HIV, demands bold action to end the various forms of violence faced by all women, including physical, emotional, psychological, sexual, institutional, and economic violence, and the trauma that violence leaves in its wake...."
http://www.thebody.com/content/69858/getting-to-zero-for-women-violence-is-the-fatal-fl.html
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