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Let the Democrats keep telling the black community that. These types of problems can't be fixed until they are first acknowledged as actual problems.
In 2007, the diagnosis rate for HIV/AIDS cases in the United States was 76.7 per 100,000 population among blacks. Among females, the predominant HIV transmission category was high-risk heterosexual contact, which accounted for 80% of new infections. The HIV incidence rate for black females was 14.7 times the rate for white females.
Overall, the HIV prevalence rate for blacks (1,715 per 100,000 population) was almost eight times as high as that of whites (224 per 100,000). Black men bear the greatest burden of HIV infection; the prevalence rate for black men (2,388 per 100,000) was six times as high as the rate for white men (395 per 100,000). Black women are also severely affected. The prevalence rate for black women (1,122 per 100,000) was 18 times the rate for white women (63 per 100,000).
In 2007, the rate of newly diagnosed AIDS cases among blacks was 43.7 per 100,000. The mortality rate among blacks with AIDS was 51% (7,124 deaths total) of the deaths in 2007.
By race/ethnicity, African Americans face the most severe burden of HIV in the United States (US). At the end of 2007, blacks accounted for almost half (46%) of people living with a diagnosis of HIV infection in the 37 states and 5 US dependent areas with long-term, confidential, name-based HIV reporting. In 2006, blacks accounted for nearly half (45%) of new infections in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Even though new HIV infections among blacks overall have been roughly stable since the early 1990s, compared with members of other races and ethnicities they continue to account for a higher proportion of cases at all stages of HIV—from new infections to deaths.
New HIV Infections1
- In 2006, black men accounted for two-thirds of new infections (65%) among all blacks. The rate of new HIV infection for black men was 6 times as high as that of white men, nearly 3 times that of Hispanic/Latino men, and twice that of black women.
- In 2006, black men who have sex with men (MSM)2 represented 63% of new infections among all black men, and 35% among all MSM. HIV infection rates are higher among black MSM compared to other MSM. More new HIV infections occurred among young black MSM (aged 13–29) than among any other age and racial group of MSM.
- In 2006, the rate of new HIV infection for black women was nearly 15 times as high as that of white women and nearly 4 times that of Hispanic/Latina women.
- Although new HIV infections have remained fairly stable among blacks, from 2005–2008 estimated HIV diagnoses increased approximately 12%. This may be due to increased testing or diagnosis earlier in the course of HIV infection; it may also be due to uncertainty in statistical models.
- At some point in their lifetimes, 1 in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV infection, as will 1 in 32 black women.
- From 2005–2008, the rate of HIV diagnoses among blacks increased from 68/100,000 persons to 74/100,000. This increase reflects the largest increase in rates of HIV diagnoses by race or ethnicity.
- In 2008, an estimated 18,328 blacks received an AIDS diagnosis, a number that has remained relatively stable since 2005.
- By the end of 2007, an estimated 233,624 blacks with a diagnosis of AIDS had died in the US and 5 dependent areas. In 2006, HIV was the ninth leading cause of death for all blacks and the third leading cause of death for both black men and black women aged 35–44.
Gonorrhea
In 2007, approximately 70% of the total number of reported U.S. cases of gonorrhea occurred among blacks. In 2007, the prevalence rate of gonorrhea among blacks was 662.9 cases per 100,000 population. This rate is 19 times higher than the 2007 rate among whites (34.7 cases per 100,000 population).
Chlamydia
In 2007, approximately 48% of all chlamydia U.S. cases occurred among blacks. In that same year, the prevalence rate of chlamydia among blacks was almost nine times higher than that of whites (1,398.7 and 162.3 cases per 100,000, respectively).
In 2007, the chlamydia prevalence rate increased for all racial and ethnic groups except American Indians/Alaska Natives. From 2003 to 2007, the chlamydia prevalence rate increased by 25% among blacks.
Syphilis
In 2007, the prevalence rate primary and secondary (P&S) syphilis among blacks was 14.0 per 100,000 population, an increase of 25% from 2006 from 11.2 cases per 100,000 population.
The rate among blacks also was 7 times the rate in whites, which is substantially lower than the disparity observed in 1999, when the prevalence rate among blacks was 29 times greater than that among whites. In 2007, increases were observed among both black men (23.2 cases per 100,000 population, up from 18.1 in 2006) and black women (5.6 cases per 100,000 population, up from 4.9 in 2006).
From 2006 to 2007, the prevalence rate of P&S syphilis increased in all racial and ethnic groups except Asians.
