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The AIDS epidemic has added a new dimension to one of the oldest sayings, a sociologist reports: It's always the woman who pays. A new study shows that women with AIDS generally feel more isolated and shunned than men with the disease, according to Bronwen Lichtenstein, a research assistant professor of sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, whose report appears in the February issue of the journal AIDS Patient Care and STDs.