Washington DC Adult Entertainment: The Root: The Link Between Race and HIV
Written on July 20, 2010 – 10:37 am | by larrylibido
The study found that when other racial ethnic groups are confronted with the same social and economic conditions faced by black Americans — social determinants of health, in public-health lingo — their HIV risk soars. The HIV rate among whites skyrocketed more than seven times from 0.23 to 1.7 percent, startlingly close to the 2.1 percent HIV rates faced by blacks and Latinos in these neighborhoods. Welcome to our America.
The study included black, Hispanic and white heterosexuals who are not intravenous-drug users or prostitutes in 23 cities, living in neighborhoods disproportionately impacted by both poverty and HIV. Seventy-seven percent of the participants were black, 15 percent were Hispanic, 4 percent were white and 3 percent represented other races. The majority of the residents in the communities surveyed were black.
See the full article from “NPR”