(f) The prevalence of sexually transmitted diseases and other diseases among prostitutes.

Over the past 20 years the morbidity rate for malignant tumours has increased by 60 per cent. The increase was 1.5 times higher among men than among women.

Broken down by sex, in 1985 the rate for men was 1.1 and for women 0.1, whereas in 1995 the rates were 124.6 and 18.8 respectively.

Morbidity rates are growing constantly, for both men and women.

In cases of disorders of different types, including those more frequent in men or women, as well as in those with equal frequency, the differences based on sex are manifested in risk factors and in clinical aspects.

For women respectively the figures are 196.6 and 225.9.

The highest morbidity rate with venereal diseases is observed in the following voivodeships Szczęcin, Olsztyn, Warsaw and Gdańsk.

Depressive disorders caused by neurosis are, on average, two to three times more frequent in women.

Breast cancer is the most common malignant illness, constituting 18 of all annual cancer instances, and 30 of the cases of cancer among women.

Among the sexually transmitted diseases, syphilis has a low rate of morbidity with 19 registered cases of ill persons (rate of morbidity 0,82 100.000).

Please provide this information, including information on maternal mortality rates, incidence of sexually transmitted diseases and cancers affecting women and rate of screening of such cancers.

434. For many years they have been the dominating cause of morbidity and mortality, and are the main cause of death (52.1 per cent of all deaths in 1993, of which, 47.8 per cent among men and 57.0 per cent among women).

For the same year, the incidence of malignant neoplasms in women aged 15 and over showed that cervical cancer was the leading cause of morbidity in cancer patients, with a rate of 75.4 per cent per 100,000 women aged 15 and over, followed by breast cancer, with a rate of 19.6 per 100,000.

In sub Saharan Africa, 75 per cent of infected young people are female and in many high prevalence countries, adolescent girls are four to six times more likely than boys their age to be living with HIV AIDS.

Moreover, adolescent fertility and abortion rates were high, and the incidence of sexually transmitted infections, particularly HIV AIDS, was growing.

Sexual education is still not adequate, and the fact is that there is the increase of early sexual activities of adolescents, the increase in number of unwanted pregnancies and the increase in rate of infectious diseases.

These include high rates of sexually transmitted infections among young people, with alarmingly high rates recorded among pregnant women.

Areas relating directly or indirectly to women girl health are given below.

Nutritional disorders are 8 to 10 times more frequent in women than men.

How did the causes of morbidity in women differ from those in men?

A decline has been noted in tuberculosis morbidity, as well as morbidity for other infectious diseases. By comparison with 1995, diphtheria morbidity has dropped 223 fold epidemic parotitis, by 45 and measles, by 10.7 fold. Syphilis morbidity has dropped to 92.1 persons per 100,000 population from 128.5.

The disease showed an upward trend, both for men and women, but since 2000, the trend has presented a tendency for stabilisation, in the sense that the number of stated new infections per year remains stable.

Levels of HIV infection among adolescents are significant, with young females experiencing the brunt of HIV transmission.

Ms. Gabr noted with satisfaction that the HIV AIDS rate in Croatia was the lowest in Europe.

Both in the structure of morbidity and the structure of mortality for children, the main causes are infectious parasitic diseases, respiratory illnesses and conditions arising in the perinatal period.

The morbidity of contagious and parasitic diseases in FBiH in 2001 amounts to 2415 for every 100.000 people.

Heart disease kills more women at all ages than breast cancer.

PER MILLION INHABITANTS, 1985 1996 Asymptomatic Sub total

Security of tenure and improvements in shelter, water and sanitation have automatic knock on effects in terms of health and nutrition, gender equality and the empowerment of women, and reduction of vulnerability to HIV AIDS and other diseases.

Incidence rates have remained more consistent over time in the all ages category and in women under 50 years of age.

From 1984, when the epidemic began, to 1995, the incidence of HIV AIDS in women rose steadily, with rates per 1,000 inhabitants increasing from 0.9 (1985) to 25.4 (1995).

This means that, in recent years, women have been more severely affected by the epidemic its incidence has been highest in the most sexually active age group (25 to 44 years).

The level of occupational disease is high.

UNIFEM is piloting gender empowerment zones in India, Brazil and Zimbabwe to make clear the link between progress on gender equality and reductions in the prevalence of HIV AIDS.

However, men constitute the majority of patients (see the table below).

437. Tumoral diseases are the second major cause of mortality and morbidity of men and women.

The study reviewed the high prevalence of iron deficiency anaemia among pregnant women, women of childbearing age and children in the two countries.

The first phase, called PPSG, will run for four years and includes the components

According to forecasts, however, in addition to the growing incidence of thyroid cancer among persons exposed to radioactive iodine, an increase in the number of cases of other forms of malignant neoplasm and cardiovascular and other non oncological types of disease may be expected in the years immediately ahead.

Comparative analysis for the 1999 2001 period shows a high rate of chronic, massive and non infectious diseases in Republika Srpska.

The enrolment rate is 98 per cent for men and 96 per cent for women for elementary education, 56.3 per cent for men and 57.5 per cent for women for secondary education, 18.4 per cent for men and 21.3 per cent for women in higher education.

In 2000, doctors faced an increase in the incidence of epidemic parotitis among children and adolescents in 2001 the incidence of this disease increased by a factor of 3.5 in comparison to the previous year, reaching a level of 288.8 incidents per 100,000 residents.

Although, since 1998, there have been fewer incidences of malignant tumours (8,567 first time patients in 2001 as opposed to 8,685 in 2000), but over the course of the last 10 years, the incidence of such tumours has increased by a total of 9.6 (see the table).

Women in Afghanistan are 60 times more likely than women in developed countries to die from pregnancy related conditions.

The Feminisation of Hiv Aids