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Prevalence of HIV/AIDS Hispanics & African Americans

tino males and females as of 1999 (HIV/AIDS 13-14). As of 1997, 85.1 percent of Latina females and 86.6 percent of Latino males reported being taught about HIV/AIDS in school, and 64.7 percent of Latina females and 57 percent of Latino males reported discussing HIV/AIDS with their parents or other adult family members.

When HIV/AIDS first appeared, it affected mainly educated, white, middle-class gay men, but by the late 1980s significant increases in AIDS cases were noted among Black and Hispanic women of childbearing age (Land 355). The HIV/AIDS epidemic struck oppressed groups who did not have ready access to medical care. The United States institutionalized prejudice against women and people of color has allowed a growing population of HIV-infected women of color to arise. Minority women have a history of disenfranchisement, marginalization, and poverty. They are under-represented in healthcare planning, and without an AIDS diagnosis, HIV-infected women do not qualify for health benefits, child care, rent subsidies, or other support services.

Prevention and outreach programs do not address the lie situations of these women (Land 355-356). They receive greater misinformation and underestimate their personal risk for HIV/AIDS, and are therefore at risk for the physical and psychological consequences of the disease. The caregivers of these women need culturally sensitive training and services to help them take care of their patients. As of 1994, women of color constituted 72 percent of women infected with HIV, 53 percent of them African-American and 20 percent of them from Latin America. The risk of AIDS is eight times greater for African-American women than for white women.

African-American women do not see themselves as being at risk because they do not see themselves as comparable to the stereotypical at-risk group members - white, gay males (Land 356). However, they are at very high risk because of intrave...

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