1.   And although new infections are spreading fastest among women who acquire the infection through heterosexual intercourse, as many as half of these women are crack addicts.

2.   But the number of women infected with HIV through heterosexual intercourse is also on the rise throughout the United States.

3.   Even as the infection rate has peaked in other parts of the world, it is still exploding in Asia, with the virus spreading mostly through heterosexual intercourse.

4.   There are several factors that make women more vulnerable to HIV-infection during heterosexual intercourse.

5.   U.N. officials said the precise reasons for the shift were unclear, though they noted that HIV was spread in Africa primarily through heterosexual intercourse.

6.   Women who have sex with women may be at less risk for cervical cancer, which in many cases is linked to a virus often transmitted by heterosexual intercourse.

7.   About half of the victims contracted the disease through heterosexual intercourse, said Dr. Robert Sarda of the World Health Organization.

8.   Epidemic mainly spread by heterosexual intercourse.

9.   Spread mainly through heterosexual intercourse and women are worse affected than men.