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How Many Have Hiv In The Usa
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How many cases of HIV in the USA?simple question: as aids maybe highest in hetrosexuals worldwide, why was it that u.s. homosexuals, and iv drug users accounted for almost 80 percent of all of the 561,00 cases across the u.s. 1981-1995? also can you give me a rough estimate on how...
Response from Rick Sowadsky, M.P.H.
Nevada State Health Division AIDS Program
Thank you for your question. Worldwide, most of the people infected with HIV are heterosexual. In Africa, where the disease is believed to have begun in the late 1940s or early 1950s, this infection began (and continues to be) among the...
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What are the rates of HIV-1 and HIV-2 in the USA?What states in the US are reported to have the highest rate of HIV infected people? What cities?... Read more »HIV/AIDS in the USA...World AIDS DayAs World AIDS Day approaches, we are hearing much about the pandemic in Africa and other... Read more »
Articles
Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report Summarizes USA Today Editorial, Opinion Piece on CDC HIV Testing RecommendationsUSA Today on Monday published an editorial and an opinion piece on CDC 's new HIV testing recommendations. The recommendations, published in the Sept. 22 edition of CDC's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report , say that voluntary HIV testing... Read more »
Hospitalizations of Pregnant HIV-Infected Women in the USA Prior to and During the Era of HAART, 1994-2003In noting that "the literature on whether HIV infection and its complex antiretroviral treatments confer a higher risk for adverse pregnancy outcomes is controversial," the authors of the current study set out to compare rates of hospitalization for... Read more »
Estimating Sexual Transmission of HIV From Persons Aware and Unaware That They Are Infected With the Virus in the USANew HIV infections stem from both people who are aware they are HIV-positive (about 75 percent of infected persons in the United States) and HIV-positive people who are unaware they carry the virus (about 25 percent of infected persons in the United... Read more »
USA Today Examines HIV/AIDS Among Hemophiliacs, History of Virus in U.S. Blood SupplyUSA Today on Wednesday examined HIV/AIDS among hemophiliacs and the history of the virus in the U.S. blood supply. Hemophilia, a condition in which a person's blood does not clot normally, mostly occurs in men, and hemophiliacs need transfusions... Read more »
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HIV and immigration OUT of USA
Posted by Dizengoff, 4 Replies
I am HIV+. My life is now over before it even began. All I want is someone to share my life with. I have tried, and cannot get a boyfriend... I have a responsibility to tell them I am positive, and that always scares them off... so I figure I should...
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Best place to live in USA with HIV?
Posted by TonyBakerOK, 5 Replies
Hello.I have been positive since 2005, and have lived in Tennessee, Texas, California and Currently Oklahoma. It seems like every state is different when it comes to HIV services and Ryan White stuff. I just moved HOME to Oklahoma and I am miserable,... Read more » Traking sexually diseases in USA?
Posted by Anonymous
Hello,I wonder if someone will have a positive HIV test or other sexaually disease if that person will have to tell your CDC of all does persons with names and so on and will then CDC track all these person down and test them??? Im from Sweden and if... Read more » USA have the worst Hotline
Posted by Anonymous, 2 Replies
CDCs HIV hotline are the worlds worst Hotline, They do not give you straight fact about HIV. What type of person workes in these hotlines? Do they have a medical backgroud? I doubt that. In my country we only approve nurses to answer questions in...
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