HIV/AIDS IN UNITED STATES August 3, 2008
Posted by frostygirl in HIV/AIDS.Tags: black, HIV/AIDS, USA
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The Centre for Disease Control in USA has receently revealed that there are more new cases of Americans infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, than previously believed.
About 56,000 people became infected with HIV in the past year, which translates to about 40 percent more cases than officials had estimated, said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention.
They now have technology that can determine when someone has been infected, this new method can indicate whether someone has been infected with HIV during the previous five months, rather than relying on statistical models.
“Diagnosis of HIV can occur years after infection. The fact that 56,000 Americans each year are contracting HIV for the first time is a wake-up call for all of us in the U.S.,” Fenton said.
“These numbers are a scathing indictment of how profoundly U.S. and CDC HIV prevention efforts have failed,” said Michael Weinstein, president of AIDS Healthcare Foundation, which calls itself “the nation’s largest provider of HIV/AIDS medical care.”
In terms of the HIV/AIDS figures in Africa the abovementioned new HIV/AIDS infected people in USA is very small, but it must be of great concern as one would expect that it would be easier to educate a first world country’s citizens than in our continent.
It is interesting to see the following report on HIV/AIDS amongst “Black” Americans:
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/conditions/07/29/black.aids.report/index.html
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