Wall Street Journal—Study Looks at HIV and Poverty By Ron Winslow and Betsy McKay
The prevalence of HIV infection among heterosexuals in U.S.
inner cities constitutes a generalized epidemic, a new U.S. study says. The
report, based on interviews of more than 9,000 people not considered at high
risk of HIV/AIDS who live in high-poverty areas of 23 U.S. cities, found that
2.1% of that population was infected with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. That
figure is more than double the 1% considered the threshold for a generalized
epidemic as defined by the Joint United Nations Programme on AIDS. And it's
about 20 times as high as the prevalence of the virus among heterosexuals in
the general U.S. population. Read
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