Les nouvelles infections à VIH chez les femmes baisses afro-américains

Pour la première fois,, the number of new HIV infections among African-American women has declined, but young gay men saw an increase, a report Wednesday released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows.

L' 2010 data was published online in the CDC’s HIV Supplemental Surveillance Report, which provides the most up-to-date picture of HIV rates in the United States.

Global, the number of new infections in the country has remained stable at about 50,000 per year over the last decade. On estime à 47,500 people became infected with the virus in 2010.

While new infections among black women remain high, for the first time it was found that new infections among black women fell 21 pour cent, à partir de 7,700 dans 2008 à 6,100 dans 2010.

CDC said the findings are “encouraging,” that public information campaigns on HIV prevention and testing seem to be working in that group, but noted that additional years of data will be needed to determine if the decrease among black women is the beginning of a longer-term trend.

Pendant ce temps, new infections among young gay bisexual men (âge 13-24) continued to rise sharply, par 22 pour cent à partir de 2008 à 2010.

Daniel Pohl, director of HIV/STI Prevention at Howard Brown Health Center, a local LGBT health care provider, said some factors likely at work are the fact that there is a higher prevalence of HIV among men who have sex with men (MSM); young gay and bisexual men are often less familiar than older MSM about the risk to that group; and barriers to getting tested and receiving antiretroviral treatment.

“The honest truth is that some communities are kind of set up to fail,” Pohl said. “There’s just dramatically more chance that any one encounter or partnership would expose that person to infection. That’s certainly true of young gay men.”

Cependant, both he and the AIDS Foundation of Chicago noted that there are signs of progress in Chicago. They cited a report released in November and conducted by Chicago Department of Public Health showing a significant increase in Chicago MSM getting HIV testing, knowing whether they were infectious or not and being linked to HIV treatment from 2008 à 2011.

And Pohl added, “We have more options now than we ever have before to help keep people HIV negative, to help them learn their status quickly, et pour les aider à être en bonne santé si le test est positif pour le virus ".

Source: Suntimes.com