HIV/AIDS and STD among African American Women, Espcialy Caribbean Heaitian Women: Ascertaing Knowledge, Attitudes and beliefs

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HIV /STD among African American Women

On the third decade of the existence of AIDS epidemic , African Americans nowadays constitute the subgroup of HIV-infected persons impacted disproportionately . In the US , African Americans comprise only 13 population , but make up 50 of the reported cases of infection in 2001 . Sixty-three percent of women infected with AIDS are composed of

largely African American women . Researchers estimated that roughly , 1 in 160 African American women are infected with HIV , while in African American men is 1 in 50 . Forty-two percent African American women with HIV infection is attributed to injection drug use since the epidemic started . Heterosexual contact with infected male partners (primarily those who are injection drug users ) contributed to 38 of the HIV infections . African American men from where the infections among African American women come from vary on the means by which they have infection themselves , two of the greatest exposure categories are : having sex with men (37 ) and injection drug use (34 . The minority of infections comes from heterosexual exposure (8

African Americans , together with the Hispanics and other ethnic /racial groups are considered high-risk populations . The prevalence of the reasons of the epidemic is very high among these groups , as dictated by several factors . Two of these factors are individual behavior and the racial discrimination . Both of these factors...