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These widows and divorcees are often re-entering the dating scene after years of marriage, which insulated them from worries about AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. Since they are post-menopausal, they often think they do not need to insist that their partner use a condom. They have little inclination to quiz a potential partner about [...]

When you think of HIV infection, risky sexual behaviors, and AIDS, the image of your 62-year-old grandmother doesn t pop immediately to mind. And that s a problem. The number of older Americans infected with the human immunodeficiency virus is rising dramatically, even as the rate of HIV infection among younger people drops.