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CDC - Young African American Men Get Most HIV
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HIV Hits 15 Times More African-American Women, 6 Times More African-American Men Than Whites
By Daniel J. DeNoon
HIV is striking African-Americans with "alarming" ferocity, according to a new CDC report. The CDC recently reported that the overall U.S. HIV epidemic was much worse than we'd thought. Now the CDC points to groups for whom the HIV epidemic is vastly worse:
- Young (aged 13-29) black men who have sex with men get HIV more often than any other age/racial group.
- African-American women are 15 times more likely to get HIV than are white women.
- African-American men are six times more likely to get HIV than are white men.
- Hispanic women are four times more likely to get HIV than are white non-Hispanic women.
- Hispanic men are more than twice as likely to get HIV than are white non-Hispanic men.
- Among Hispanics, men get 76% of new HIV infections.
- African-Americans get nearly half of all new HIV infections in the U.S.
- Men who have sex with men get more than half of all new HIV infections in the U.S.
- Among white gay/bisexual men, those aged 30-39 and 40-49 get the most new HIV infections.
HIV/AIDS
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Also called: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS, HIV, Human immunodeficiency virus
HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It kills or damages the body's immune system cells. AIDS stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. It is the most advanced stage of infection with HIV.
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