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From the epidemic’s start, black people have been disproportionately likely to test positive for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. African American men, women and children now account for 51 percent of new HIV diagnoses—up from 25 percent in 1985—and 55 percent of people dying nationally of AIDS, although they make up 13 percent of the U.S. population.

More than 2 percent of all African Americans are HIV-positive, a higher incidence rate than in any other group, according to a federal analysis of cases between 1999 and 2002 cited by the nonprofit Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. Black women make up two-thirds of new HIV diagnoses among women, and black teens make up 66 percent of cases among youth.

African Americans are the only group experiencing a continuous rise in HIV infections, even though there is little difference from the rest of the population in how black people contract it.

I’d like to know if that analysis factored in lower black conscientiousness and its likely impact on testing and disclosure.  In other words, blacks are no doubt less diligent than other groups in getting themselves tested, and researchers are likely to gloss over that fact.

Posted by Svyatoslav Igorevich on Tuesday, June 6, 2006 at 08:46 PM in
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Posted by ben tillman on June 06, 2006, 09:50 PM | #

Greater promiscuity among blacks leads to greater virulence in the germs they transmit through sex.

Posted by ben tillman on June 06, 2006, 09:56 PM | #

The decades-long lag in identifying AIDS as a black health crisis results from both the disease’s initial label as a white epidemic and its association with homosexuality, which carries a heavy stigma in the black community.

No, it resulted from racial differences and the deliberate denial that such differences exist.

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