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Originally published Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 5:15 PM
U.S. has 54 percent of HIV infections in Western nations
The report by UNAIDS, the agency that monitors HIV and AIDS throughout the world, said the United States accounted last year for 54 percent of the estimated 88,000 new HIV infections in Western nations, and 69 percent of the 27,000 AIDS-related deaths in those areas.
By John Zarocostas
McClatchy foreign staff
GENEVA ? The United States is lagging in the global battle against HIV and AIDS, a new U.N. report says, with inadequate treatment and a drop-off in awareness among the reasons the U.S. carries a disproportionate share of HIV and AIDS cases among wealthy nations.
The report also found that blacks are far more likely than other ethnic and racial groups in the United States to be infected with HIV and 10 times more likely than whites to die from AIDS.
The report says that while blacks made up 13.2 percent of the U.S. populations last year, they accounted for an estimated 46 percent of people living with HIV in the country and half of AIDS-related deaths...
Originally published Wednesday, July 16, 2014 at 5:15 PM
U.S. has 54 percent of HIV infections in Western nations
The report by UNAIDS, the agency that monitors HIV and AIDS throughout the world, said the United States accounted last year for 54 percent of the estimated 88,000 new HIV infections in Western nations, and 69 percent of the 27,000 AIDS-related deaths in those areas.
By John Zarocostas
McClatchy foreign staff
GENEVA ? The United States is lagging in the global battle against HIV and AIDS, a new U.N. report says, with inadequate treatment and a drop-off in awareness among the reasons the U.S. carries a disproportionate share of HIV and AIDS cases among wealthy nations.
The report also found that blacks are far more likely than other ethnic and racial groups in the United States to be infected with HIV and 10 times more likely than whites to die from AIDS.
The report says that while blacks made up 13.2 percent of the U.S. populations last year, they accounted for an estimated 46 percent of people living with HIV in the country and half of AIDS-related deaths...