Report: DC has nation's highest HIV/AIDS rate
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By The Associated Press
03.16.2009 9:03am EDT
(Washington) A new report by D.C. health officials says that at least 3 percent of residents in the nation’s capital are living with HIV or AIDS and every mode of transmission is on the rise.
The findings in the 2008 epidemiology report by the D.C. HIV/AIDS Administration point to a severe epidemic that’s impacting every race and sex across the population and neighborhoods.
Scheduled to be released today, the report says that the number of HIV and AIDS cases jumped 22 percent from the nearly 12,500 reported in 2006.
Almost 1 in 10 residents between ages 40 and 49 are living with HIV, and black men had the highest infection rate at almost 7 percent.
The report says that the virus is most often transmitted by men having sex with men, followed by heterosexual transmission and injection drug use.
3/17/09
Report: DC has nation's highest HIV/AIDS rate
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well we can't compare DC to Utah but the facts are HIV is still on the rise on both states.
I was shock when my best friend told me he have HIV yesterday and I cried with him. He dated a guy who isn't safe & he trusted him. So whoever is reading this, you better trust yourself first before you trust someone else. Live & learn - pass it on!
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