I would now consider Black-Americans a high risk group in Tennessee. Is the rate of infictions this high in other states?
African-Americans, particularly African-American women, are most affected by HIV/AIDS in Tennessee. While African-Americans make up about 16 percent of the population, they comprise 60 percent of diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases. Seventy-one percent of Tennessee women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2004 were African-American. Of the 85 women who died from AIDS in 2004, 75 percent were African-American. African-American men composed 55 percent of infected men and 67 percent of the 235 deaths in Tennessee men.
Once seen as a disease that targeted homosexual white males, HIV/AIDS has spread across gender, race and ethnic boundaries, and particularly affected the African-American community. Today African-Americans make up the largest group of young people affected by HIV/AIDS. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HIV/AIDS is one of the four leading causes of death for black women, aged 20-24. African-Americans die from AIDS-related complications sooner than any other racial or ethnic group in the U.S., most likely because they are diagnosed at a later and more advanced stage of infection.
Approximately half of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses and 51 percent of HIV/AIDS deaths in 33 states were among blacks, although blacks represent only 13 percent of the U.S. population. CDC indicated the trend is continuing into the next generation: 71 percent of infected infants are black and 63 percent of American children under 13 years of age newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are African-American.
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African-Americans, particularly African-American women, are most affected by HIV/AIDS in Tennessee. While African-Americans make up about 16 percent of the population, they comprise 60 percent of diagnosed HIV/AIDS cases. Seventy-one percent of Tennessee women diagnosed with HIV/AIDS in 2004 were African-American. Of the 85 women who died from AIDS in 2004, 75 percent were African-American. African-American men composed 55 percent of infected men and 67 percent of the 235 deaths in Tennessee men.
Once seen as a disease that targeted homosexual white males, HIV/AIDS has spread across gender, race and ethnic boundaries, and particularly affected the African-American community. Today African-Americans make up the largest group of young people affected by HIV/AIDS. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), HIV/AIDS is one of the four leading causes of death for black women, aged 20-24. African-Americans die from AIDS-related complications sooner than any other racial or ethnic group in the U.S., most likely because they are diagnosed at a later and more advanced stage of infection.
Approximately half of all new HIV/AIDS diagnoses and 51 percent of HIV/AIDS deaths in 33 states were among blacks, although blacks represent only 13 percent of the U.S. population. CDC indicated the trend is continuing into the next generation: 71 percent of infected infants are black and 63 percent of American children under 13 years of age newly diagnosed with HIV/AIDS are African-American.
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In the world there has one reported case of HIV being transmitted from a kiss.
