1. INCREASES IN HIV DIAGNOSES AT THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER, 2003-2006.
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Espinoza, Lorena, Hall, H. Irene, and Xiaohong Hu
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DIAGNOSIS of HIV infections ,HISPANIC Americans ,HISPANIC American neighborhoods ,MEXICAN Americans ,HIV-positive persons ,PUBLIC health surveillance - Abstract
The article presents a study which investigates the number of HIV infection diagnoses at the border of the U.S. and Mexico from 2003-2006. The study analyzed cases of HIV infections, utilized the 2000 revised HIV surveillance case definition from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and examined HIV-infected persons' sex, age group and year of diagnoses. Among the persons diagnosed with HIV infection at the border region, 47% of them are Hispanic, 39% are nonHispanic white and 10% are nonHispanic black. It indicates that HIV diagnoses increased 7.8% per year during 2003-2006 and were observant among men. The authors recommend to make prevention and education program particular to the Hispanic/Latino community to decrease HIV disease incidence.
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- 2009
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