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The
Global Pandemic
- AIDS
is a global pandemic that is impacting the developing world and
people of color most dramatically. Worldwide there were
33.4 million persons estimated to be living with HIV/AIDS as of
the end of 1998 of which 95% resided in developing countries.
- While
only one tenth of the world's population lives in Sub-Saharan
Africa, it is the region of the world hardest hit by HIV/AIDS,
accounting for 22.5 of the persons living with HIV/AIDS by the
end of 1998.
- In
North America, there are an estimated 890,000 persons living with
HIV/AIDS; 1.4 million in Latin America; 560,000 in East Asia;
500,000 in Western Europe; and 6.7 million in South and Southeast
Asia.
HIV/AIDS
and African Americans in the United States
- While
African Americans represent about 13% of the total U.S. population,
they account for 37% of the cumulative AIDS cases and 45% of the
new AIDS cases reported in 1998.
- African
American men made up 40% of the new AIDS cases among males, African
American women represented 62% of the new AIDS cases reported
among females and African American children made up 62% of the
new AIDS cases among children reported in the U.S. in 1998.
- CDC
estimates that 240,000 - 350,000 African Americans--about
1 in 50 African American men and 1 in 160 African American women--are
infected with HIV.
AIDS
Cases per 100,000 Population
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African
Americans have the highest AIDS case rate per 100,000 population
of all ethnic/racial groups--66.4 per 100,000 population compared
with 8.2 for whites.
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African
American males have an AIDS case rate of 125.2, over seven times
the rate for white males who have a rate of 17.8 per 100,000
population.
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African
American women have an AIDS case rate of 49.8, over 20 times
the rate for white women who have a rate of 2.4 per 100,000
population.
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Georgia
has an AIDS case rate of 59.1 per 100,000 African American population.
AIDS
Cases Among Gender
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African
American males make up 75% of the cumulative AIDS cases reported
among adolescent/adult African Americans, while females make
up 25% of the cases.
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In
1998, African American males made up 69% of the reported cases
among African Americans while females made up 31% of the cases.
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Among
African American males the leading exposure category for AIDS
is men who have sex with men (38% of the cumulative cases and
31% of the new AIDS cases reported in 1998).
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Among
African American females, injecting drug use (44%) is the leading
exposure category for cumulative AIDS cases and heterosexual
transmission (36%) is the leading exposure category for new
AIDS reported in 1998.
HIV/AIDS
in Georgia
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According
to CDC, the
State of Georgia has the eighth highest number of reported AIDS
cases in the U.S.
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The
total number of AIDS cases reported in Georgia in 2001 was 24,406.
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In
Georgia, African Americans make up approximately 62% of the
total reported cumulative AIDS cases.
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More
than 68% of the reported AIDS cases in Georgia are within the
Atlanta Metropolitan area which includes Clayton, Cobb, Dekalb,
Fulton, and Gwinnett counties. 67% of these cases are
in Fulton County.
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African
American children make up 78% of all reported pediatric cases
in Georgia.
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African
American women comprise 83% of the total reported cumulative
AIDS cases among women in Georgia.
- In
2001. there has been 12,203 reported cased of AIDS related deaths
in Georgia.
For
more information about HIV/AIDS statistics or other sexually transmitted
diseases, check out these siteső
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The
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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The
National Prevention Information Network (NPIN)
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Morbidity
and Mortality Weekly Reports (MMWR)
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U.S.
Department of Health and Human Service
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