Trauma-Related Conditions Drive Deaths in Women with HIV

Why women with HIV are still dying early, even when virus is not main cause

Women with HIV most often die from preventable, trauma-related conditions like substance use and mental illness—not the virus itself. Yet these leading causes are largely missing from official death records, according to new research by UC San Francisco.

Trauma-related conditions drive deaths in women with HIV

Women with HIV most often die from preventable, trauma-related conditions like substance use and mental illness - not the virus itself. Yet, these leading causes are largely missing from official death records, according to new research by UC San Francisco.

Women With HIV Are Dying of Trauma, Not the Virus, and Death Records Are Missing It

On a death certificate, the story looks settled. A woman with HIV dies, a hospital physician or a coroner fills in the cause, and more often than not the line reads HIV/AIDS. Tidy. Official. And, according to the people who actually cared for these women over decades, mostly wrong. That is the uncomfortable finding of a study out this month from the Women’s HIV Program at the University of California, San Francisco. It is the first to set death …

Women Living with HIV Face Higher Risk of Trauma-Related Deaths Than from

New Insights Reveal Trauma-Related Conditions as Leading Cause of Death in Women with HIV, Not the Virus Itself In a groundbreaking study conducted by researchers at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), the prevailing narrative that HIV infection directly causes the majority of deaths among women living with the virus has been fundamentally challenged. […]