Epidemiology

U.S. Minorities with HIV Outnumber Whites

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, November 5th, 2000

Blacks and Hispanics accounted for nearly 70% of new HIV infections from July 1999 to June 2000 in the U.S., a striking change in what was once known as a disease of gay white men, the U.S. surgeon general said October 4, 2000.

Part of the problem is that the groups hardest to reach in prevention campaigns - high school dropouts, former inmates, and the homeless - are disproportionately black and Hispanic, Dr. David Satcher said.

Of an estimated 40,000 new infections over the 1999-2000 period, blacks accounted for more than 50% and Hispanics accounted for 19%, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). "When the AIDS...

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