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...Novello, chair in 1988 of a national task force for women's research of also delivered pointed criticism of medical studies, which she said too often ignore women...
Insisting that "awareness [of the problem] is the key," Novello emphasized the prevalence of marital abuse in the United States. One is five women experiences persistent beating by her husband, according to the surgeon-General...
...Novello said that drawing attention to the effect of the AIDS epidemic on women and adolescents was an important part of her agenda...
Currently, 22,000 women are infected with the AIDS virus, according to Novello, who said she was disturbed because most of these women are between the ages of 25 and 50, and were infected in the last two years...
Furthermore, current AIDS figures for adolescents are deceptive because they do not account for the incubation period, Novello said. To observe the degree to which adolescents are infected, she argued, it is necessary to study patients in their...