The study showed that the annual rate of infection was 24 per 10,000 African-American women in six cities: Baltimore; Atlanta; Newark, New Jersey; New York City; Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina; and Washington, D.C. Nationally, African-American women’s rate is 5 per 10,000. In the Congo, it is 28 per 10,000.
The women in the study also had higher poverty rates, according to the study:
“Slightly more than 40 percent of the women did not know the HIV status of their last sexual partner. And more than 40 percent of our participants had an annual household income of $10,000 or less.”
First and far most my heart goes out to those women who have the disease and especially to those women who are and were married when they contracted it.
I would like to hear your thoughts on this topic, and how you feel the statistics fair. Are they skewed or should we hear more about the number of men who are transferring this disease to their partners.
Let me hear from you?