By David Beasley
ATLANTA |
Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:38pm EST
ATLANTA (Reuters) – Fewer black women in a United States are being putrescent with HIV, yet a series of immature happy and bisexual group putrescent is rising, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention pronounced on Wednesday.
Between 2008 and 2010, a series of newly putrescent black women forsaken 21 percent, according to a CDC report. Yet notwithstanding a decline, they still accounted for 70 percent of all new HIV cases among women, a sovereign health group said.
The rate of new infections for black women was 20 times aloft than a rate for white women, a CDC said.
The series of new infections among immature happy and bisexual group increasing by 22 percent during that same two-year period, a CDC said.
The series of new HIV infections diagnosed annually in a altogether U.S. race remained unvaried between 2008 and 2010 during about 47,500, according to health officials.
Public information campaigns on HIV impediment and contrast seem to be operative in obscure a series of new infections among African-American women, pronounced Joseph Prejean, arch of a Behavioral and Clinical Surveillance Branch in a CDC’s multiplication of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Atlanta.
“We are speedy to see some declines among African-American women,” Prejean told Reuters. “They’ve been one of a many exceedingly influenced populations. We’re carefully confident that this could be partial of a longer-term trend.”
Among immature happy and bisexual men, efforts to quarrel HIV have not been as effective, presumably since of advances in diagnosis for AIDS, a defence commotion caused by HIV, Prejean said.
“We do comprehend that many group who have sex with group do substantially blink their personal risk and trust that diagnosis advances minimize a health threat,” Prejean said.
Even yet diagnosis can lengthen a life of an AIDS patient, Prejean cautioned that “their life unequivocally does change. They afterwards start to take remedy and will take remedy for a rest of their lives,” he said.
HIV is an incorrigible infection that costs $400,000 to provide over a lifetime, CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden pronounced final month after another supervision news showed some-more than half of immature Americans putrescent with HIV were not wakeful they had it.
Young people ages 13 to 24 comment for 26 percent of all new HIV infections in a United States, a progressing CDC news said.
The news expelled on Wednesday pronounced scarcely two-thirds of new HIV infections in 2010 resulted from group carrying sex with other men. Young black group who have sex with group comment for some-more new infections than any other subgroup, supervision health officials said.
“Because happy group comment for 66 percent of all new infections, we contingency boost a concentration of the impediment programs for happy men, quite immature and black happy men,” pronounced Michael Ruppal, executive executive of The AIDS Institute.
(Editing by Colleen Jenkins and Dan Grebler)
Source: Health Medicine Network