J Int AIDS Soc. 2011 Mar 8;14:11. doi: 10.1186/1758-2652-14-11.
The HIV epidemic has been continuously growing among women, and in some parts of the world, HIV-infected women outnumber men. Women's greater vulnerability to HIV, both biologically and socially, influences their health risk and health outcome. This disparity between sexes has been established for other diseases, for example, autoimmune diseases, malignancies and cardiovascular diseases. Differences in drug effects and treatment outcomes have also been demonstrated. Despite proven sex and gender differences, women continue to be underrepresented in clinical trials, and the absence of gender analyses in published literature is striking. There is a growing advocacy for consideration of women in research, in particular in the HIV field, and gender mainstreaming of policies is increasingly called for. However, these efforts have not translated into improved reporting of sex-disaggregated data and provision of gender analysis in published literature; science editors, as well as publishers, lag behind in this effort.Instructions for authors issued by journals contain many guidelines for good standards of reporting, and a policy on sex-disaggregated data and gender analysis should not be amiss here. It is time for editors and publishers to demonstrate leadership in changing the paradigm in the world of scientific publication. We encourage authors, peer reviewers and fellow editors to lend their support by taking necessary measures to substantially improve reporting of gender analysis. Editors' associations could play an essential role in facilitating a transition to improved standard editorial policies.
艾滋病病毒在女性中的传播持续增加，在世界某些地区，感染艾滋病病毒的女性人数超过男性。女性在生理和社会方面更容易受到艾滋病病毒的影响，这影响了她们的健康风险和健康结果。这种性别差异在其他疾病中已经得到证实，例如自身免疫性疾病、恶性肿瘤和心血管疾病。药物作用和治疗结果的差异也已经得到证明。尽管已经证明存在性别差异，但女性在临床试验中的代表性仍然不足，而且发表的文献中缺乏性别分析的情况也很明显。越来越多的人倡导在研究中考虑到女性，特别是在艾滋病病毒领域，并且越来越要求将性别观点纳入政策主流。然而，这些努力并没有转化为改善按性别分类的数据报告和提供发表文献中的性别分析；科学编辑以及出版商在这方面落后了。期刊发布的作者指南包含许多关于良好报告标准的指导方针，因此这里不应缺少关于按性别分类的数据和性别分析的政策。编辑和出版商现在应该表现出领导能力，改变科学出版界的范例。我们鼓励作者、同行评审员和其他编辑通过采取必要措施来实质性地改进性别分析报告，给予支持。编辑协会可以在促进向改进的标准编辑政策过渡方面发挥重要作用。
