ABSTRACT
By the end of 1991, 1,952 women in the UK had been found to have antibodies to the human immunodeficiency virus. These are women who have come forward for HIV testing and there is general agreement (e.g. Peckham and Newell 1990) that they represent only a small proportion of the total number of women in the UK infected with HIV. More than 90 per cent of women who are known to be HIV positive are of child-bearing age (see Table 4.1) and many have not yet started or completed their families.
