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Posted on 02/06/2006 2:49:39 PM PST by Clemenza
Just over half of new infections with the AIDS virus in the United States are in blacks, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.
A study of detailed data from 33 states shows that of 156,000 new cases of HIV infection between 2001 and 2004, 51 percent were in non-Hispanic blacks -- although blacks made up just 13 percent of the population in those states.
The good news is that the rate of new infections declined in black women and in many black men -- with the exception of men having sex with other men, the team at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported.
"Despite reductions in diagnoses among African American men and women, HIV continues to pose a major health threat," the CDC said in a statement.
"Despite possible signs of success, HIV continues to exact a disproportionate and devastating toll on African Americans."
The CDC's Tonji Durant and colleagues found that the rate of HIV diagnosis fell by 6.8 percent annually among black women and 4.4 percent annually among black men between 2001 and 2004.
But blacks still had a substantially higher infection rate than other ethnic groups, the CDC team told the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections being held in Denver.
The HIV diagnosis rate even fell by 9.7 percent every year on average among black male users of injected drugs, the CDC study found.
The human immunodeficiency virus that causes AIDS is spread by sex -- homosexual and heterosexual -- by sharing needles with someone who is infected, or via blood transfusions. Infected mothers can pass the virus to their babies.
The virus infects close to 40 million people worldwide and more than a million people in the United States.
The CDC estimates that 40,000 Americans become infected with HIV each year.
A second study presented at the same conference found that 32 percent of black men in Baltimore who had sex with other men, which includes homosexual and bisexual activity, were infected with HIV.
She dumped him on the spot.
Great Society=Whitey
Good, now that's settled.
I thought that was because of "honey, not tonight, I need an aspirin..." LOL
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Aids goes hand in hand with poverty. Poverty goes hand in hand with welfare. Welfare was the liberal establishment's way of controlling the black vote and holding on to power. Ergo, it is the liberals who are to blame for the high rate of AIDS among blacks. Back at ya, Dems.
Welcome to FR, Boom-Boom. I wish you were a returning FReeper so I could say "welcome back."
BTW, if Clemenza teases you a lot, it's 'cause he's got you on the spot.
ROFLOL. Still waiting for the first two seasons (with Barbarino, not the blonde guy who looked like Ted McGinley) to come out on DVD.
Discrimination.
Blacks are being picked on again.
No way could they be a part of the problem.
What percentage of HIV-positive black males in the U.S. are African or Carribean immigrants?
non-Hispanic blacks..........
What is a non hispanic black?
LOL, this is actually Bush's fault dontcha know!
The point being the black family IS destroyed.. Generally and massivily.. Federal dollars destroy in a hundred places.. The black family is merely one vector.. And what federal dollars is not doing RAP is.. The RAP culture is a diseased culture.. The black american culture is infectious..
Not to mention the percentage of murders, robberies, rapes etc. that are attributed to such a small percentage of the overall population.
Also what is the percentage of families with fathers in this group?
AIDS is racist.
Hispanic Black:
NON-Hispanic Black:
Any questions?
I know that Haitian immigrants are not allowed to give blood. Don't know about other Carribbean immigrants.
That fact is disgraceful to the black race.
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