Friday, May 23, 2008

Who is at risk?

"An estimated 252,000--312,000 persons in the United States are unaware that they are infected with HIV and, therefore, are unaware of their risk for HIV transmission" (1). This is about a ¼ of all infected individuals in the United States.

That is pretty incredible considering free and rapid testing. Access to HIV testing is amazingly widespread and easy.

Some people don't want to get tested because they don't think they are at risk. Some people don't want to get tested because they just don't want to face the facts. In my masters paper I found that only 6%-7% of HIV positive women knew that their partners were infected (and 100% of their partners were infected in my sample). My question to you is… do you know who you are sleeping with?

My other question is who do you think are at most risk of acquiring HIV? MSM? IDU? White? Black? Hispanic?

1Glynn MK, Rhodes P. Estimated HIV prevalence in the United States at the end of 2003 [Abstract T1-B1101]. Presented at the 2005 National HIV Prevention Conference, Atlanta, Georgia; June 14, 2005.

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