Black women in US 23 times as likely to get Aids virus African-American women are 23 times as likely to be infected with the Aids virus as white women and account for 71.8% of new HIV cases among women in 29 US states, government research shows. The Kaiser Family Foundation, a non-profit health organisation, has found that in 2001 roughly 67% of black women with Aids had contracted the virus through heterosexual sex - up from 58% four years earlier. Government studies in 29 states found that black women comprised roughly half of all HIV infections acquired through heterosexual sex,...