31.   Treating infected women with anti-HIV drugs cuts the risk of transmission to newborns by two-thirds.

32.   While about half of all infected men show early symptoms, only a small minority of infected women do.

33.   Whether to treat women or infected couples is even more controversial, because an infected woman is much more likely to pass on the virus to the baby.

34.   Why do infected men seem to live longer than infected woman, and do the standard AIDS treatments work as well for women as they do for men?

35.   Giving the drug AZT to infected women during pregnancy helps keep them from passing HIV to their babies during birth.

36.   In reality, the epidemic has penetrated the refuge of homes, as evidenced by the rise of infected women and paediatric AIDS in the country and globally.

37.   Infected U.S. women are routinely told not to breast feed, but this advice is not practical in poor countries, where women have no alternative.

38.   Infected women sometimes suffer spontaneous abortions and stillbirth.

39.   Infected women have higher levels of HIV in their vaginal secretions, and infected men carry more in their semen.

40.   Thanom, another infected woman from the same village, tried moving her children to another district but said even that did not work.