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This 3 page paper discusses HIV/AIDS in the African American population in Houston, Texas. It also discusses demographic information such as life expectancy and infant mortality. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in one population group: African-Americans in Houston, Texas. Discussion The information about the prevalence of the disease in this group can be found in a publication of the Texas Department
of State Health Services, which put out a comprehensive report about AIDS in Texas, updated February 2008. The report goes back to 2002, so its possible to track trends in
this population segment over time. Demographic data for African-Americans in Houston, without regard to HIV/AIDS, shows a population that differs greatly from its white counterpart. Statistics can be tough
to find, but one source shows the birth rate for all races in 1990 to be 4,111,000 live births; in 2004, there were 3,223,000 live births to white women and
616,000 to African Americans nationwide (U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, 2006). Although this is for the entire country, its logical to assume that Texas would show the same ratio:
namely, four times as many whites giving birth as blacks. Infant mortality, which is the number of deaths of infants under one year per 1,000 live births, was 5.7%
in Texas as a whole (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). During the period 1990-1999, the overall infant mortality rate in the state declined by 20% (HHS System Strategic
Plan for FY 2005-2009). This encouraging news did not extend to the black community, however; during the period 1989-1999, "African American infants, on average, died at a rate twice that
of all other infants who were born in Texas" (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). The rate in 2000 was 11.4% but only 3.5% for Hispanics and 4.8% for
whites (HHS System Strategic Plan for FY 2005-2009). Life expectancy for African Americans has improved over time, though not as much as it has for whites. In 1960, an African
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