AIDS hits blacks harder than other groups: CDC
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African American men are nearly seven times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV than white men, according to a report by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Thursday.
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NEW YORK  - The abnormal immune response that leads to multiple sclerosis, or MS, is stronger in African Americans than in whites with the disease, new research indicates. This may partly explain why blacks often experience greater disability.
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More African women than men contract HIV, and, worldwide, women reportedly account for one-half of the infections. The International Center for Research on Women
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Black American women are more likely  to have a hard-to-treat form of breast cancer, they get it  earlier and they are more likely to die of it, researchers said  on Thursday.
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Every report on HIV issued over the past several years indicates that women, and especially African American women living in the United States, are diagnosed with HIV/AIDS at alarming rates.
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Poverty, unemployment and other  socioeconomic factors are helping to fuel a growing HIV problem  among black women, a U.S. study released on Thursday suggests.
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Rapid HIV tests lead to more  people getting tested and receiving their results, according to  a study by the US Department of Veterans Affairs presented at  the 16th International AIDS Conference.
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U.S. blacks continue to get inferior  cancer treatment compared to whites, researchers said on Monday  in a study showing that disparities first documented in the  early 1990s persist despite efforts to erase them.
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Africa News, JOHANNESBURG - AIDS has hit sub-Saharan Africa so badly that the disease will cast a shadow over generations to come, even in countries that succeed in the battle against it, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
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HIV infections are rising in  black men and women living in developed nations that have  otherwise made strides against the disease, said participants  at the 16th International AIDS Conference in Toronto.
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Malaria is fueling the spread of AIDS in Africa by boosting the HIV in people's bodies for weeks at a time, says a study that pins down the deadly interplay between the dual scourges.
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The UN warned on Tuesday that the world is facing a &quot;unique development challenge&quot; as new data showed nearly 40-million people now have HIV and over 3-million will die of Aids this year, the highest tolls in the 23-year history of the killer disease.
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In 2002, three of the ten leading causes of death differed between blacks and whites in the US, reflecting disparities in health care, according researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.
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HIV/Aids is badly affecting the global workforce, the International Labour Organization says on World Aids Day.
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The graphic outlines the impact of AIDs in Africa, where more than two-thirds of the people living with HIV worldwide live. (AP Graphic).
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Measuring the amount of AIDS virus   circulating in the blood of HIV-positive patients is not a good   indicator of the health of their immune systems, researchers   said on Tuesday.
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Statistics for AIDS in Africa are so overwhelmingly depressing they make your eye sockets throb. The United Nations is constantly reporting things like: â¢ Seventy percent of all people on Earth who are HIV-positive live in the region.