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The face of AIDS is female. The international conference on AIDS being held this week in Barcelona bares the truth. Women - heterosexual women in sanctioned relationships - are the world's chief victims of AIDS. They are not yet a majority of those who suffer from AIDS but they will be, and soon. Some 44 percent of those who are HIV-positive are now women, according to a United Nations report prepared for the conference.