WOMEN AND AIDS PRODUCT

Today was Women's Rights Day. Online Fashion Store will not go back to it because every year I am very annoyed by the way in which this day is used for marketing purposes, we forget so easily that this day exists to fight against inequalities, and we know that there are many in the world. world and in our country.

So many that it would be difficult to mention them all and we have no idea to what extent affects all areas.

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A few months ago I was sent a book on the subject of HIV, how it is experienced by women. It is written in the form of a collection of testimonies from 10 women affected or fighting against the disease: patients, doctors, members of associations.

I learned a lot there, not only about the disease, how to treat it today (which has evolved a lot in recent years), and especially about the fact that it is lived in a very special way by women.

Indeed, women do not experience the disease in the same way as men. Different causes for this, including the fact that women particularly suffer from disabling side effects.
Clinical trials of drugs are done primarily on ... men. Treatments are therefore formulated for men weighing 80 kilograms on average and we completely ignore the fact that women have this characteristic of being subject to significant hormonal variations.

They, therefore, suffer from significant intolerance (metabolic disorders, nausea, disabling diarrhea, etc.) because the doses cannot be adjusted according to weight and metabolism. I was shocked by the reading of some testimonies on this subject. I give you an excerpt from it, from a woman who confided to her doctor her incomprehension in the face of an uncontrollable weight gain following the taking of a new treatment:

This phenomenon of abnormal distribution of adipose tissue is called lipodystrophy and it is a recognized side effect. You can imagine that it is terribly difficult to live in our society where the image is so important, the consequences are not only psychological (lower self-esteem), but also emotional, social and therapeutic: by losing confidence in one's treatment, the woman can abandon it.

Women are represented in clinical trials from 5 to 10%… mind-blowing isn't it? But they can skew the results because they ... can get pregnant. Patients, therefore, face a wall when it comes to communicating unwanted side effects with their doctor. So that they feel happy to have treatment.

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I advise you to read this book, very easy to access, and which allows you to learn a lot about the hidden side of the epidemic, experienced by women, without taboo.
We realize the difficulties they encounter not only in their personal lives but also vis-à-vis the medical profession. Sometimes doctors and gynecologists are simply not trained to follow an infected woman. The risk: prescribe drugs that are not compatible with antiretrovirals or even non-compliance with the monitoring rhythm specific to his condition.

Remember the awareness campaigns, they were largely addressed to men and in particular drug addicts and homosexuals. The consequence today: a "feminization" of the disease which, in France, counts among the new cases of seropositivity 32% of women. Most of them are of a certain age, past their forties or fifties, who find themselves in risky situations after a separation. Typically a population that has missed the prevention messages.

I urge you to discover the testimonies of these very interesting women.