hiv prevalence

(MedPage Today) -- In 2008, the prevalence of HIV was 19% among more than 8,000 men who have sex with men (MSM), the CDC reported.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) HIV prevalence among African-Americans is 10 times greater than the prevalence among whites.

This racial disparity in HIV prevalence has persisted in the face of both governmental and private actions, involving many billions of dollars.

In the November 2009 issue of the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill examine factors responsible for the stark racial disparities in HIV infection in the US and the now concentrated epidemic among African-Americans.

County-level data on the intensity of AIDS and HIV cases, as well as statistics by age, gender and ethnicity, can be found through a new HIV/AIDS Atlas was launched Sunday by the National Minority Quality Forum, a Washington, D.C., group.