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Two studies document the growing importance of heterosexual transmission of HIV infection in the U.S. and abroad.
In Africa, a cross-sectional serologic survey of 1458 childbearing women in Rwanda found that 32 percent were infected with HIV. The prevalence was high among young women (38 percent in those 19 to 23 years old); single women (48 percent); and divorced, widowed, or separated women (55 percent). Sexually active women who lived alone had a 64 percent prevalence.
A second study in San Francisco examined risk factors for HIV transmission by surveying 379 heterosexual couples in which at least one person was infected, and in which the direction of transmission was known. More than 90 percent of the couples were monogamous during the si…