Washington DC has Highest HIV/AIDS Rates

by Tashira Walker, The Black College View
D.C. health officials released a report earlier this week showing the Washington, DC area to have the highest rate of the AIDS infection than any other city in the US. Between the years of 2001 and 2006, there were 7,947 HIV cases reported which included, 4,468 AIDS cases. Following these statistics, it is reported that African Americans (84.3%) made up that population nine times more than whites and twenty times more than Hispanics.
According to the 2007 District of Columbia HIV/AIDS Epidemiology Annual Report "The preeminent finding of this renewed annual examination of the District's HIV and AIDS status is that every community and every population group is impacted by the virus."
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