Tuesday, February 06, 2007



AIDS among African Americans
According to reports of research and health care institutes African- Americans have the most infected by AIDS and STD diseases among American ethnic and racial groups. Based on this report in 2004 census on infected people, 50% of them were black, 30 % White and 18 % Spanish. Others such as Asian and Indians each were almost 1%. Among African-Americans, men more than women have been infected, albeit African women include most among women of other races. Having unsafe sex, heterosexual or homosexual, as first and second factors and drug injection as third, are important within men, but for women sex and again drug injection, as first and second factors in order are reported. Taking no antiretroviral drugs, not knowledge about sex partners, poverty, less access to health care and prevention trains against AIDS are reported as main factors to develop more among blacks. To prevent this increasing rate some institutes have implemented since 1980s, so they caused to decrease the rate, some centers as CDC by funding for research and cultural programs tried to ban its excessive extension among African-Americans and other ethnic groups.
Analysis
What is not surprising about this report is its assertion about public poverty among African Americans. Economic poverty entails cultural poverty which is rooted in their calamitous past. If there were no Luther King, Malcolm X, and others to lead movements such Civil%2

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