A just-released report shows HIV rates among women in certain parts of the US are much higher than previously estimated.
Researchers from the HIV Prevention Trials Network, which includes Emory University, recruited women from six large metropolitan areas in the Northeast and South.
Their findings—African American women in those cities were five times more likely to be HIV-positive than estimates used for African-American women as a whole in the US.
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