Treasures of the Internet: AIDS

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Untitled AIDS Trends and Epidemiology

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Untitled Trends Untitled Race Untitled Blacks Untitled Asian-Pac Is Untitled Hispanics Untitled Nat Amer Untitled White Untitled Gender Untitled Men Untitled Women
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4. Untitled AIDS and minority groups in the US . Untitled AIDS disproportionately affected " Untitled men who have sex with men (MSM) ". However, since the epidemic begun in the Untitled United States , careful analysis of the early reported cases of AIDS would reveal that Untitled AIDS has always disproportionately affected Untitled African-Americans and Untitled Hispanics (see table below).

Table. Reported Cases of AIDS in the US, 1982-1985 (CDC)

Year		US (Total)			"Whites"
	Cases	%		Cases	%	Ratio*
1985	15719	0.007%		9460	0.005%	0.77
1984	7699	0.003%		4466	0.002%	0.74
1983	3064	0.001%		1776	0.001%	0.74
1982	452	0.000%		278	0.000%	0.78

		Afr-Amer			Untitled Hispanics
	Cases	%	Ratio**	Cases	%	Ratio**
1985	3,868	0.014%	2.65	2225	0.013%	2.65
1984	1,898	0.007%	2.76	1111	0.007%	2.89
1983	787	0.003%	2.89	435	0.003%	2.94
1982	86	0.000%	2.02	54	0.000%	2.42

[Read footnotes below for additional explanations.]

Since the Untitled AIDS epidemic begun in the Untitled United States , both Untitled African-Americans and Untitled Hispanics were 2-3 times more likely than Untitled Caucasian "White" Americans to get AIDS, if the number of reported Untitled AIDS cases was normalized with respect to their respective "ethnic populations" (see "Ratios" in the table above). In contrast, the ratio for Untitled Caucasian "White" Americans is less than "1.0" ( i.e., about 0.74-0.78, when the % AIDS cases among Untitled Caucasian "White" Americans are normalized to the % AIDS cases of the total US population). The latter suggests a lower prevalence of AIDS among Untitled Caucasian "White" Americans compared with the total US population. The ratio is even lower among Untitled Asian & Pacific Islanders and Untitled American Indians & Alaskan Natives (see Figures below).

During the early stage of the epidemic and the socio-political climate in the 1980's, it would have been political suicide to emphasize the "ethnic imbalance" in the prevalence of AIDS. In fact, during the early stages of the epidemic, "Haitians" have been singled out and reported to be disproportionately affected by AIDS. Protest from the latter group soon deemphasized such reporting to the public.

In retrospect, the fear of being stigmatized, or perhaps to be associated with "the gay disease" caused leaders of the major ethnic groups to ignore, if not bury, the impact of AIDS in their communities. Thus, while the political leaders of the major ethnic groups in the US have declared much publicized "wars" against guns and violence, drugs, poverty, etc., they never "declared war" against Untitled AIDS .

The aftermath of this deliberate neglect has led to current tragic proportions of AIDS cases and deaths from AIDS-related illnesses and other opportunistic infections among Untitled African-Americans and Untitled Hispanics . In fact, after 1995, the Untitled African-Americans have the highest absolute number of reported new AIDS cases each year (see figure below).

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Untitled Proportion of AIDS Cases, by Race/Ethnicity and Year of Report, 1985-2000 (US)³⁶

When the raw numbers (indicated in the above figures) are normalized with respect to "ethnic populations", the disproportionate impact of AIDS among ethnic minorities in the Untitled United States , especially Untitled African-Americans and Untitled Hispanics , is even more staggering (see figure below). The trends observed from 1990-2000 (see figure below) continue the trend observed during the early stage of the epidemic (see table above).

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Untitled Annual reported AIDS cases (1990-2000) of the major ethnic groups in the United States (US), expressed as percent (%) AIDS cases relative to the corresponding population of an ethnic group in a given year. The "open square" line graph, represents the percentage (%) of the total US AIDS cases relative to the total US population in a given year.

Visit Untitled Trends and the other links therein, for more "pictographic" presentation of the changing demographics of AIDS in the Untitled United States .

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Untitled AIDS Trends and Epidemiology

Untitled Historical Overview : Untitled [1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 - 6 ]

Untitled AIDS News and Information

Untitled AIDS Information Sources ; in Untitled Spanish

Untitled AIDS Organizations and Support Groups

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Notes and Footnotes:

Untitled The % AIDS ratio (Ratio*) for Untitled Caucasian "White" Americans was calculated relative to the % AIDS of the total US population. The corresponding % AIDS ratio (Ratio**) for Untitled African-Americans and Untitled Hispanics were calculated relative to the % AIDS among Untitled Caucasian "White" Americans .

Untitled Unless otherwise specified, all the statistical AIDS data and resulting figures presented for the United States were from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC is the major US federal agency responsible for the surveillance and dissemination of information on HIV and AIDS in the United States. The various information databases created by CDC are integrated, along with other AIDS databases from other sources, in the A-Z navigation index of AIDS Primer.

Untitled Click on Literature Sources to access the source of the information database, specified as superscript after each topic link.

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