Case 6: African Americans with HIV: Epidemiology and Risk Factor - Special Populations - HIV Web Study

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Case 6: African Americans with HIV: Epidemiology and Risk Factors

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	This African-American woman is unusual in that most African-American women in the United States have injection-drug use as their risk factor for acquiring HIV.

This answer is incorrect. In the United States, high-risk heterosexual contact, not injection drug use, is by far the most common mode of HIV acquisition for African-American women.

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	For African-American males in the United States, heterosexual sex is the most common risk factor for acquiring HIV.
	In the United States in year 2005, the number of deaths in persons with AIDS was greater in whites than in African-Americans.
	In the years 2001-2005, more new cases of HIV (with or without AIDS) were reported in African Americans than any other racial/ethnic population.

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