Glossary entry

Spanish term or phrase:

se está feminizando

English translation:

...is spreading among women

Added to glossary by Lydianette Soza
Jan 18, 2011 03:48
13 yrs ago
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Spanish term

se está feminizando

Spanish to English Medical Medical: Health Care HIV -AIDS
La epidemia se está feminizando debido a que hay una mayor prevalencia de VIH en hombres que tienen sexo con hombres y más del 70% de estos son bisexuales, lo que constituye un puente epidemiológico que acelera la transmisión a mujeres.
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...is spreading among women

Peer comment(s):

agree Muriel Vasconcellos
8 mins
Thank you, Muriel! :)
agree Zareh Darakjian Ph.D.
30 mins
Thank you, Zareh!
agree María Eugenia Wachtendorff
1 hr
Muchas gracias María Eugenia.
agree Emma Goldsmith : or female population
2 hrs
Thank you, Emma! Yes, that sounds great!
agree Jenni Lukac (X)
5 hrs
Thank you, Jenni!
agree Isabel Cisneiros
8 hrs
Obrigado, Isabel!
agree Phoebe Anne
11 hrs
Thank you, Phoebe!
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it's being transmitted evermore to women

there is a higher prevalence of HIV in homosexual men, who in turn have heterosexual relation in over 70% of cases; creating an epidemiological connection for transmitting the disease to women
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Feminización de...

Creo que el término se empezó a usar con relación a la pobreza (354.000 citas en Google):

www.ywcadallas.org/documents/advocacy/FeminizationofPoverty...
"women experience poverty at far higher rates than men".

Se usa "feminization of", "feminized poverty"... y según entiendo es no solo que algo se propaga entre las mujeres, sino que lo hace a un ritmo mayor que entre los hombres.

Hay 186.000 entradas de "feminization of HIV"
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