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African Americans are the largest racial minority in the United States. They comprise approximately 13 % of the total US population and are disproportionally affected by HIV/AIDS.
Introduction
HIV affects African Americans at a disproportionately higher rate than other races. Compared to their White counterparts, rates of new HIV infections are over six and a half times higher for African American men and over fifteen times higher for African American women (CDC 2012). Just under half of the population living with HIV in the United States (US) is African American. While HIV risk for African American men remains highest among MSM, African American women are over twice as likely to be infected with HIV through heterosexual activity. Possibly most alarming is the difference in mortality rates for individuals with HIV. The mortality rate for African Americans with HIV is almost 9 times higher than the mortality rate for White individuals with HIV (CDC 2010). Taken together,...
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Cropsey, K., Clark, C.B., Dehon, E. (2014). HIV Prevention and African Americans. In: Hope, T., Stevenson, M., Richman, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of AIDS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9610-6_124-1
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