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

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

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	For African-American males in the United States, heterosexual sex is the most common risk factor for acquiring HIV.

This answer is incorrect. For African-American men living with HIV in the United States, male-male sex is by far the most common route of HIV acquisition. The next most common routes are injection drug use and high-risk heterosexual sex, both of which account for a similar percentage of cases. Unfortunately, more than 50% of HIV-infected African-American men are unaware of their HIV status.

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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.
	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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