HIV Rates for Black Women in Parts of the US Much Higher than Previously Estimated
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 23:00
in Health & Medicine
Newark is one of six locations in the United States that are the focus of a new study whose findings indicate that the HIV incidence rate for US women living in areas hardest hit by the epidemic is much higher than the overall estimated incidence rate in the US for black women. The study was designed, and the national research team chaired, by Sally Hodder, MD, professor and vice chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School. The study was presented at the 19th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Seattle.