Men infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are at greater risk of suffering from brittle and fragile bones than women finds new research. The results showed that in HIV-infected adults the chances of the protein and mineral content of the bone tissue getting reduced and the bones becoming brittle and fragile are as high as 90 percent in men and 60 percent in women. Further fractures rates are 60 percent higher in HIV patients the than in the general population. Bone mass loss has become a major adverse side effect of HIV infection and its treatment as a result of
