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A 5 page discussion of why non-whites seem more likely than whites to contract HIV/AIDS. The statistics demonstrating this discrepancy are provided and speculation is presented as to what social factors might be at play to explain those statistics. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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transmitted diseases of our time. The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) has been directly implicated as causative agent in AIDS (Hollen, 2004). In other words, HIV is
a predecessor stage to full blown AIDS (Hollen, 2004). The virus which causes HIV is spread through bodily fluids either through intimate sexual contact, through blood transfusions or other
medical procedures, or in the case of intravenous drug users, through contaminated needles. Infants can contract the disease while still in the womb of their infected mother. A
significant body of research exists that demonstrates a clear correlation between AIDS case rates (particularly cases caused by sexual activity) and race/ethnicity. African American women, for example, appear to
be at particular risk. African American women are reported, in fact, to be thirteen times more likely to die from AIDS than white women (Armstrong, 2004). Non-whites in
general tend to run a higher risk for contracting AIDS than do whites. Kaplan, Tomaszewski, and Gorin (2004) report that in
2001 76.3 percent of all AIDS victims in the U.S. were African American, 28.0 percent Latino, and 11.7 percent American Indian. Asian/Pacific Islanders and Whites, in contrast, comprised only
4.8 percent and 7.9 percent of 2001 AIDS cases (Kaplan, Tomaszewski, and Gorin, 2004). Although there are no racially determined biological reasons for one race or ethnicity to be
more impacted by AIDS than another, there are sociological reasons. At the same time, while one can easily limit their chances of contracting AIDS through such obvious high-risk practices
as sharing needles, outside of celibacy there are no one-hundred percent effective means for preventing the sexual transmission of AIDS. A consistent use of condoms seems to one of
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