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New York city data: clearer picture emerging of HIV epidemic.(Gynecology)
SAN FRANCISCO -- Recent mandates to report diagnoses not only of AIDS but also of HIV infection are exposing the bulk of this iceberg of an epidemic, and it's not a pretty sight.
Nearly 1% of all New York City residents are living with diagnosed HIV or full-blown AIDS. Close to 4% of all men in New York City in their 40s have a diagnosis of HIV or AIDS, as do 2% of black men in the city and 3% of all men in the borough of Manhattan, Denis Nash, Ph.D., reported at the 11th Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections.
"A larger proportion of women and minorities are being diagnosed with HIV than we would have anticipated," he added.
Until recently, the epidemic was tracked by AIDS diagnoses alone--the tip of the iceberg. New York State implemented reporting of newly diagnosed HIV or AIDS by health care providers and laboratories in June 2000, and at least 29 states have tracked HIV as well as AIDS since 1999.
The new numbers still don't reveal the epidemic in its entirety. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 25% of people with HIV don't know that they're infected, said Dr. Nash of New York City's Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.
For the first time, the city has a sense of how many residents get HIV each year. In 2001, 6,662 New Yorkers were diagnosed, 35% of them women. Compared with white residents of the city, non-Hispanic blacks were five times more likely and Hispanics were three times more likely to be diagnosed with HIV. The data should help medical and public health officials allocate resources ...
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