<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Racial Disparity and the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans </strong></div>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Racial Disparity and the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans </strong></div>
Description
African Americans are more likely to contract HIV/AIDS than any other group of people living in the United States. “In 1986, 25% of HIV/AIDS cases were among African Americans. By 2001–2004, African Americans represented 51% of newly diagnosed infections. The wide-spread impact of this disturbing epidemic is intensifying”. Many reasons are cited for the disproportionate increase if AIDS among Blacks, but, the closest correlation we have is the alarming incarceration of African Americans since the 1980’s. According the NAACP Organization (naacp.org) between 1980 and 2015, the number of Blacks incarcerated in America increased from roughly 500,000 to over 2.2 million. At the same time HRSA (hrswa.org) reports in 2011, that of the 2.2 million people affected with the HIV/AIDS virus over 500,000 were African Americans.
Subject
Percentage of African Americans affected by Aids in the state of Florida See all items with this value
Creator
Cato T. Laurencin MD, Donna Christensen MD, and Erica D. Taylor MD
Source
Laurencin, MD, Cato T. & Christensen, MD, Donna & Taylor, MD, Erica D. 2008. "HIV/AIDS and the African-American Community: A State of Emergency." JOURNAL OF THE NATIONAL MEDICAL ASSOCIATION 35-43.
Date
2008
