HIV Rates for U.S. Urban Black Women Five Times Higher Than Previously Estimated
Thursday, March 8, 2012 - 23:00
in Health & Medicine
A national team of AIDS experts at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere say they are surprised and dismayed by results of their new study showing that the yearly number of new cases of HIV infection among black women in Baltimore and other cities is five times higher than previously thought. The data show that infection rates for HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, among this population are much higher than the overall incidence rates in the United States for African-American adolescents and African-American women.