Commentary

AIDS Care Not Color Blind

Published in AIDS Weekly, September 11th, 1995

The ugly secret about AIDS in America is that the epidemic is spreading most quickly in racial and ethnic populations victimized by the U.S. healthcare system.

A recent study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (see AIDS Weekly, September 9, 1995) found that racial and ethnic disparities in HIV prevalence are becoming greater among both heterosexuals and homosexuals.

Now a new study shows that black and Hispanic AIDS patients hospitalized with Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) have a 70 percent lower chance of surviving their hospital stay than white patients.

In Veterans Administration (VA) hospitals,...

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