HIV
High rates of HIV in African American women, February 2005 Women's Health Update from the CDC/ATSDR

HIV/AIDS among African Americans, Updated Fact Sheet
During 2000–2003, HIV/AIDS rates for African American females were 19 times the rates for white females and 5 times the rates for Hispanic females; they also exceeded the rates for males of all races/ethnicities other than African Americans. Rates for African American males were 7 times those for white males and 3 times those for Hispanic males. http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/PUBS/Facts/afam.htm

HIV Transmission Among Black Women — North Carolina, 2004
In August 2004, the North Carolina Department of Health invited CDC to assist in an epidemiologic investigation of HIV transmission among black women in North Carolina. This report summarizes the results of that investigation, which indicated that the majority of HIV-positive and HIV-negative sexually active black women in North Carolina reported HIV sexual risk behaviors. In 2003, women constituted 28% of human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome cases in the United States; approximately 69% of those cases were among non-Hispanic black women. Heterosexual transmission is now the most commonly reported mode of HIV transmission among women.
Text version - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm5404a2.htm
PDF version - http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/PDF/wk/mm5404.pdf

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