Don't have sex with blacks or Hispanics. Don't use intravenous drugs or commiserate with anyone who has.
Black and Hispanic communities have been disproportionately affected
by HIV and AIDS in America.
Despite their smaller share of the general population, more black
people have been diagnosed with AIDS than white people, and they are far
more likely to be diagnosed with HIV and AIDS.
During 2007, 50% of all new HIV
diagnoses and 42% of new AIDS diagnoses
were in black people yet they comprise around just 13% of the
population. In recent years the numbers of HIV diagnoses have remained
relatively stable in most ethnic groups.
Male-to-male sexual contact is probably the single largest factor for
all people living with AIDS ranging from 46%
of African American males to 84% of Native
Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander males. African Americans and Hispanic
males with AIDS are more likely to have been infected through injection
drug use, relative to other ethnic groups with around a quarter of
infections (26% and 23%
respectively) having been caused in this way. For females living with
AIDS heterosexual contact accounts for the majority of all infections.
However, injection drug use accounts for a greater proportion of White
and American Indian/Alaska Native females living with AIDS (40%) than for Asians (11%)
or Pacific Islanders (18%).