Thursday, October 14, 2010

Health officials estimate that 1 in 22 African-Americans will be diagnosed with the HIV/AIDS virus in their lifetime

This is more than twice the risk for Hispanics and eight times that of whites. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that the lifetime risk is 1 in 52 for Hispanics, and 1 in 170 for whites. Asian-Americans had the lowest lifetime risk, at about 1 in 222.

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