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Education is recognized as a social determinant of health. [1] [2] Education has also been identified as a social vaccine against contracting HIV. [3] Research suggests a negative linear relationship between educational attainment (years of education) and HIV infection rate, especially the educational attainment of women and girls. [4] [5] [6]
Native American women are found to be 2.4 times as likely to contract HIV/AIDS, compared to white women. [37] 2010 Women began representing 1 out of every 4 cases of HIV/AIDS in the U.S. [1] 2011 HIV/AIDS became the leading cause of death for African American women aged 25 to 34. [36]
African American women are 19 times more likely to contract HIV than other women. [89] By 2008, there was increased awareness that young African-American women in particular were at high risk for HIV infection. [90] In 2010, African Americans made up 10% of the population but about half of the HIV/AIDS cases nationwide. [91]
"The findings show that the difference in HIV diagnosis rates between African-American women and white women (the group with the lowest rates) decreased by almost 25 percent from 2010 to 2014.
Story at a glance New data from AIDSvu, a HIV mapping project from Emory University, shows that Black and Hispanic Americans only make up 14 and 17 percent, respectively, of PrEP users. Meanwhile ...
A 2006 report from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimated that about half of the 1 million U.S. citizens living with HIV/AIDS were African–American. [49] A 2010 study published on the American Journal of Public Health reported that 64% of women infected with HIV/AIDS in the United States were African–American. [50]
African-Americans are at the highest risk of contracting HIV in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease and Control and Prevention (CDC), African-American accounted for 44% of all new HIV infections in the United States between 2010 and 2016, although African-Americans make up roughly 12% of the American population. [3]
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