HIV/AIDS in U.S. Communities of Color

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stone, Valerie (Editor), Ojikutu, Bisola (Editor), Rawlings, M. Keith (Editor), Smith, Kimberly Y. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Health promotion.; Infectious diseases.; Medicine & Public Health.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.; Infectious Diseases.

More people in communities of color are contracting, living with, and being treated for HIV/AIDS than ever before. In 2005, 71% of new AIDS cases were diagnosed in people of color. Though the number of racial and ethnic minority HIV/AIDS cases continues to grow, the health care community has been un...