National Black HIV/AIDS

Estimados colegas esta informacion en el CDC me parece importante .
Saludos
Dr. Carlos Erazo

 http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/pdf/wk/mm6004.pdf

February 7 is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, an observance intended to raise awareness of the disproportionate impact of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) on the black population in the United States and to encourage prevention measures, such as HIV testing. Estimates of HIV incidence for 2006 indicated that blacks had a rate of 83.7 per 100,000 population, compared with 11.5 for whites (1). Two of the three goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy are to reduce new HIV infections and HIV disparities (2).

In 2006, male-to-male sexual contact was associated with an estimated 63% of new HIV infections among black males (3). Among black females, high-risk heterosexual contact was associated with an estimated 83% of new infections (3). Data from CDC’s National HIV Behavioral System show that, in 2008, 59% of HIV-infected black men who have sex with men (MSM) did not know they were infected, compared with 26% of white MSM (4).

Additional information regarding National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is available at http://www.cdc.gov/features/blackhivaidsawareness. Additional information regarding blacks and HIV/AIDS is available at http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/aa/index.htm.
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