African American Female HIV Rates Now Rival Africa

Black women in the US have a higher risk for contracting HIV than many may realize (Christina Morillo/Pexels)

As we prepare to recognize National Women and Girls HIV Awareness Day, a new research study has served as a wake up call for a community that might have gone too far.  The Center for Disease Control now estimates that 1 out of every 32 black women will be infected with HIV during her lifetime.  Although black women represent only 14 percent of the US female population, they constitute 66 percent of all new HIV infections.   The infection rates of black women in the United States rival those in the Congo and Kenya.

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