HIV Infection Rate Among Blacks Doubles

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Do you notice how they always try to blame YT for the high nigger AIDS rate rather than groidal behavior?
 
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HIV Infection Rate Among Blacks Doubles.......

must be whites fault!!! the CIA, Bush,the GOP all planned it!!







..BOSTON (AP) - The HIV infection rate has doubled among blacks in the United States over a decade while holding steady among whites - stark evidence of a widening racial gap in the epidemic, government scientists said Friday.

Other troubling statistics indicate that almost half of all infected people in the United States who should be receiving HIV drugs are not getting them.

The findings were released in Boston at the 12th Annual Retrovirus Conference, the world's chief scientific gathering on the disease.

"It's incredibly disappointing," said Terje Anderson, director of the National Association of People With AIDS. "We just have a burgeoning epidemic in the African American community that is not
nbeing dealt with effectively."

Researchers and AIDS prevention ad
vocates attributed the high rate among blacks to such factors as drug addiction, poverty and poor access to health care.

The HIV rates were derived from the widely used National Health and Nutrition Examinations Surveys, which analyze a representative sample of U.S. households and contain the most complete HIV data in the country. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compared 1988-1994 data with figures from 1999-2002.

The surveys look only at young and middle-aged adults who live in households, excluding such groups as soldiers, prisoners and homeless. Thus, health officials believe the numbers probably underestimate true HIV rates in this country.

Still, they show a striking rise in the prevalence of the AIDS virus from 1 percent to 2 percent of blacks. White rates held steady at 0.2 percent. Largely because of the increase among blacks, the overall U.S. rate rose slightly from 0.3 per
c
ent to 0.4 percent.

Smaller studies had shown rising infection rates among black
s in recent years, but this study takes a longer and more complete look at changes in the general population.

"I think it's very concerning," said Dr. Susan Buchbinder, who leads HIV research for the city of San Francisco. "I think what we need to look at is how we can reduce those rates and get more people into treatment."

She recommended a stronger focus on treating drug addiction.

The lead CDC researcher, Geraldine McQuillan, said she was encouraged to see the HIV rate among younger blacks holding steady at just under 1.5 percent.

"It tells me we're making some headway," she said.

Other national data and published reports studied by the CDC showed that 480,000 HIV-infected people ages 15 to 49 should have been getting antiviral drugs in 2003, yet only 268,000, or 56 percent, were given such medication.

Researcher Eyasu Teshale of the CDC
said
the gap represents "a substantial unmet health care need."

Treatment is widely viewed as a central component in prevention. Powerful AIDS
drugs that came into wide use in the mid-1990s can knock down levels of the virus in the body, reducing the chances that the patient will infect others.

Nearly 1 million people in the United States have contracted the AIDS virus since the outbreak began in the early 1980s. About 40,000 people test positive each year, and more than 18,000 die. However, U.S. infections have remained fairly level in recent years with the use of powerful HIV drugs. :pity: :pity: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
 
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HIV Infection Rate Among Blacks Doubles

BOSTON (AP) - The HIV infection rate has doubled among blacks in the United States over a decade while holding steady among whites - stark evidence of a widening racial gap in the epidemic, government scientists said Friday. (and also stark evidence that blacks are a pathetic race of sex addicts whose promiscuity knows no bounds!!!!)

Other troubling statistics indicate that almost half of all infected people in the United States who should be receiving HIV drugs are not getting them.

The findings were released in Boston at the 12th Annual Retrovirus Conference, the world's chief scientific gathering on the disease.

"It's incredibly disappointing," said Terje Anderson, director of th

e National Association of People With AIDS. "We just have a burgeoning epidemi
c in the African American community that is not being dealt with effectively."


Researchers and AIDS prevention advocates attributed the high rate among blacks to such factors as drug addiction, poverty and poor access to health care.

The HIV rates were derived from the widely used National Health and Nutrition Examinations Surveys, which analyze a representative sample of U.S. households and contain the most complete HIV data in the country. Researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention compared 1988-1994 data with figures from 1999-2002.

The surveys look only at young and middle-aged adults who live in households, excluding such groups as soldiers, prisoners and homeless. Thus, health officials believe the numbers probably underestimate true HIV rates in this country.

Still, they show a striking rise in the prevalence of the AIDS virus from 1 percent to 2 percent of bla
ck
s. White rates held steady at 0.2 percent. Largely because of the increase among blacks, the overall
U.S. rate rose slightly from 0.3 percent to 0.4 percent.

Smaller studies had shown rising infection rates among blacks in recent years, but this study takes a longer and more complete look at changes in the general population.

"I think it's very concerning," said Dr. Susan Buchbinder, who leads HIV research for the city of San Francisco. "I think what we need to look at is how we can reduce those rates and get more people into treatment."

She recommended a stronger focus on treating drug addiction.
(how about getting rid of the coons, that might work!!)

The lead CDC researcher, Geraldine McQuillan, said she was encouraged to see the HIV rate among younger blacks holding steady at just under 1.5 percent.

"It tells me we're making some headway," she said.

Other national data an
d publ
ished reports studied by the CDC showed that 480,000 HIV-infected people ages 15 to 49 should have been getting antiviral drugs in 2003, yet only 268,000, or 56 percent, w
ere given such medication.

Researcher Eyasu Teshale of the CDC said the gap represents "a substantial unmet health care need."

Treatment is widely viewed as a central component in prevention. Powerful AIDS drugs that came into wide use in the mid-1990s can knock down levels of the virus in the body, reducing the chances that the patient will infect others.

Nearly 1 million people in the United States have contracted the AIDS virus since the outbreak began in the early 1980s. About 40,000 people test positive each year, and more than 18,000 die. However, U.S. infections have remained fairly level in recent years with the use of powerful HIV drugs.


Don't articlels like this put you in the mood to celebrate diversity????

Gman
 
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Even if AIDS was a created disease, or the newer forms coming out are... I think this is only due to people's behaviour.

:( I remember in the early 80s, how AIDS could be transmitted, yet the social planners passed condoms out to people...a way of saying it's ok to have illicit sex and not worry about consequenses......I was at first puzzeled at this action, then the queers got into ACTing UP.

My first impulse was to be wary of just going with the 'program', I warned others the condoms won't help a bit and to be faithful to their women. I was rediculed as an "alarmist"...

:pity: I have little pity for those who have died in the 80s and 90s, although we all here have known at least one person who died from AIDS.

:clap: If they want to mess around with this new strain, I'd say that I warned them, but they won't listen

:angry: don't try to rape any white or asian women niggers!!
 
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I hope all these coons get aids and die on the street.

Even in death they strain the very fabric of normal society.
 
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