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Women of all races account for a quarter of the 50,000 new HIV infections each year in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC estimates 1.2 million Americans are infected, and that 20 percent of them don’t know it. While the study found unexpectedly high rates of infection, the findings would not affect overall estimates about how many people are infected, Flexner said.

And 66 percent of the women newly infected each year are black, even though African-American women represent only 14 percent of the U.S. female population. “Nearly one in 30 black women will become infected with HIV in her lifetime,” the CDC says.

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1 posted on 03/08/2012 9:11:44 PM PST by LucyT
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'More than 40 percent of the women had no idea whether their sex partners had HIV."

WHAT? Does that mean that more than half KNEW their partners had HIV and had sex anyway????

40 posted on 03/09/2012 7:12:39 PM PST by cincinnati65 (We've been taken for a ride - by Wall Street and Washington DC - Welcome to Amerika!)
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That anal sex will get you every time.


41 posted on 03/09/2012 7:14:26 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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