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HIV among African Americans

March 29, 2016

According to Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), African Americans are the racial/ethnic group most affected by HIV in United States.  In 2014, an estimated 48% (10,045) of those diagnosed with AIDS in the United States were African Americans. By the end of 2014, 42% (504,354) of those ever diagnosed with AIDS were African Americans. Also, the CDC says that “only 37% of African Americans living with HIV at the end of 2012 were prescribed antiretroviral therapy (ART), the medicines used to treat HIV, and only 29% had achieved viral suppression”.

The numbers about living with HIV and deaths show that “at the end of 2012, an estimated 496,500 African Americans were living with HIV, representing 41% of all Americans living with the virus. Of African Americans living with HIV, around 14% do not know they are infected”. The Centers of Disease Control and Prevention also affirms: “of African Americans diagnosed with HIV in 2013, 79% were linked to HIV medical care within 3 months, but only 51% were retained in HIV care (receiving continuous HIV medical care)”.

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