HIV Positivity among Nation’s Most Populous Minority on the Increase

[Epidemiology] — Posted by Michael Douglas, MD, MBA on 23 July 2008 at 8:16 AM

Complacency is the assumed response to HIV as an all-encompassing term.  It follows, then, that the response to the following troublesome statistic will probably be met with relative inaction, at least initially. 

AIDS rates in the nation’s Latino community are increasing and, with little notice, have reached what experts are calling a simmering public health crisis.  Though Hispanics make up about 14 percent of the U.S. population, they represented 22 percent of new HIV and AIDS diagnoses tallied by federal officials in 2006. According to a survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Hispanics in Washington, D.C., have the highest rate of new AIDS cases in the country.

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