CDC finally updates estimated annual HIV cases in the USA
Posted by Dr. Bright on August 2, 2008 at 02:07 PM
At least 56,000 people become infected with the AIDS virus every year in the United States,40 percent more than previous estimates, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC stressed that actual infection rates have not risen but said better methods of measuring new diagnosed infections and then extrapolating this to the general population led to the fresh estimates. “CDC’s first estimates from this system reveal that the HIV epidemic is (and has been) worse than previously known. Results indicate that approximately 56,300 new HIV infections occurred in the United States in 2006,” the CDC said in a statement.
Posted by Melissa Simontis 08/08 09:37 AM
Dr. Bright,
Another “revelation”, I recently read a report by the Ford Foundation and Elton John AIDS Foundation that said “more black Americans are living with HIV/AIDS than the infected populations in Botswana, Ethiopia, Guyana, Haiti, Namibia, Rwanda or Vietnam--all countries that receive support from the U.S. government’s anti-AIDS program PEPFAR. However, whereas federal funding for PEPFAR has increased dramatically, funding for domestic HIV prevention programs has remained virtually flat.”
I thought it was an interesting approach to conceptualize black America as a country for comparison to other parts of the world.