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HIV-AIDS Infection
Teledjol.com - Monday April 27, 2009
Sexual Risk Behaviors and Drug Use Related HIV/AIDS Infection Amomg Male Adolescents in United States.
Sexual Risk Behaviors and Drug Use Related HIV/AIDS Infection Amomg Male Adolescents in United States.Abstract An estimation of 33.2 million people were infected with HIV worldwide at the end of 2007, from which, 2.5 million were children under the age of 15 years old. That same year, 2.1 million people died from HIV/AIDS, from which, 300,000 were adolescents under the age of 15 years old (UNAIDS, 2007). In United States, at the end of 2006, an estimated 1,106.400 adults and adolescents were living with HIV/AIDS infection and about 15,449 (per 100,000) of them were adolescents within 13-19 years old (CDC Facts, 2008). Among the HIV-infected population in 2006 in the U.S., 46.1% (1,715.1 per 100,000) were black, 34.6% (224.3 per 100,000) were white, 17.5% (585.3 per 100,000) were Hispanic, 1.4% (129.6 per 100,000) were Asian/Pacific Islander, and 0.4% (231.4 per 100,000) were American Indian/Alaska Native. Men accounted for 74.8% of the prevalent cases (685.7 per 100,000) for that year. Heterosexual contact represented 27.6% of prevalent cases overall, from which 12.6% of cases among men and 72.4% of cases among women. Injection drug use (IDU) accounted for 18.5% of total cases (15.9% of cases among men and 26.3% of cases among women) (MMWR, 2006). The infection has a greater prevalence rate among African American males in all group age categories. This paper intends to analyze the burden of sexual riskbehaviors and drug use related HIV/AIDS infection among male adolescents in United States.
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