Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County offers free, confidential HIV tests, which can be scheduled by calling 937-225-4550.
In Montgomery County, it said, women and girls made up 18% of the new HIV cases in 2019, with African American women making up half of that amount.
Public Health also said that 1 in 9 women with HIV are unaware they have it and might unknowingly pass it on to others.
The department listed a few factors that make a woman more vulnerable to HIV, including:
- Having other sexually transmitted diseases like gonorrhea or syphilis
- Not using condoms or medicines to prevent HIV when the male’s risk of having HIV is unknown
- Woman having a higher risk of getting HIV during sex than their partners
- Women who have been sexually abused may be more likely to engage in risky behavior that could put them in danger of catching HIV
In the U.S. in 2018, 88% of men and women who were diagnosed with HIV caught it from heterosexual contact, with a small percentage attributing the diagnosis to injection drug use.
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