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Steady HIV infection rate in the US conceals large increases in young gay and black men
Gus Cairns, 2011-08-04 17:10:00
About 50,000 adults a year are being infected with HIV in the US, a new estimate by the country’s Centers for Disease Control (CDC) revealed today in an article in the open-access journal PLoS One.
This infection rate, equating to an annual incidence of 0.019% or about one infection a year in every 2000 US citizens over 13, has stayed steady in the last four years for which we have complete figures (2006-2009).
However this unchanging incidence conceals large increases in the new infection rate in young people, gay men, black men, and particularly the group including all those categories – young black gay men.
Between 2006 and 2009 new HIV infections increased by 20.5% in young people aged 13-29, by 34% in young gay men, by 43% in young black men, and by 48% in young black gay men.
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