HIV/AIDS Prevention

Study shows HIV-positive teens were not aware of risks and delayed treatment

Published in Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly, May 12th, 2004

Few of the 59 HIV-positive Georgia teenagers in a study were aware of the risk of being sexually active and some were not treated for months after their diagnosis, federal officials said April 20, 2004.

Only a fifth of the teens, ages 13 to 19, were diagnosed within 6 months of being infected, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said. CDC and Emory University officials studied the teens at Grady's Infectious Disease Program for Adolescents between 1999 and 2002.

Although the study mainly involved urban black youth from Atlanta's highest poverty areas, health officials said that all sexually active adolescents are at risk of acquiring...

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