As of today March 16,2009 it was reported that AIDS Rate Soars in Nation's Capital. Washington is the nation's capital, home to the President and his family , but it has the highest rate of aids and hiv in country
This is just saying that look what our world is coming to it's not just in illinois, chicago, or among young african american females, it's every where.This is very important to me because it's showing howAIDS and HIV is effecting people all over the world .People are dying in our nation's captial and this just goes back to whyI think this is important, I feel that I need to warn people about how this rate is on the rise and something needs to be done the rise in AIDS and HIV.
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the definition of an epidemic is 1 percent of the population. AWashington's rate of infection with HIV-AIDS is three times that. HIV/AIDS Rates Higher in D.C. Than West Africa .Any disease that infects more than one percent of the population is considered a “generalized and severe” epidemic. There are an estimated 33 million people living with HIV/AIDS in 2007, according to the 2008 UNAIDS/WHO report.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that some 1.1 million people in the United States are living with HIV or AIDS.Honestly i can say what are people thinkin about is life" worthless"?That translates into 2,984 residents per every 100,000 over the age of 12 or 15,120 according to the 2008 epidemiology report by the United state’s Washington district of Columbia's HIV/AIDS office.
The report also finds that 76 percent of those infected are blacks. Among its findings: Almost half of those who had connections to the parts of the city with the highest AIDS prevalence and poverty rates said they had overlapping sexual partners within the past 12 months, three in five said they were aware of their own HIV status, and three in 10 said they had used a condom the last time they had sex. This is really sad because i believe that people take life for granted because they know the consequence of haveing unprotected sex.
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