How are women with HIV Infection evaluated?
Statistics show that there is an increasing number of women with HIV diseases. Social Security’s guidelines for the immune system recognize that HIV infection can show up differently in women than in men. In addition to following the criteria outlined in the previous section, DDS disability evaluators consider specific criteria for diseases common -in women. These include: vulvovaginal candidiasis (yeast infection); genital herpes; pelvic inflammatory disease (PID); invasive cervical cancer; genital ulcerative disease; and condyloma (genital warts caused by the human papillomavirus). Again, the level of severity necessary for these impairments to be considered disabling is included in the list of impairments.
