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| This Map published by the US Center for Disease Control - Showing States with Highest Rate of AIDS Infections ... |
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33.2 Million People Worldwide ...
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1.2 Million People in the United States are living with HIV infection and 1 in 5 are unaware of their infection …
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Notorious for its religious conservatism and a history of slavery and segregation. The South has gained another reputation in the past few years, not so widely known: it is quickly becoming the center of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States.
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Spread mostly by the southern culture of denial, finger pointing, and their southern religious beliefs plus bad hygiene HIV/AIDS has become an epidemic in the American South. The HIV/AIDS outbreak has reached state of emergency levels in the southern United States with some of the highest AIDS death rates in the country.
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In rural areas of the American South, infection rates are 50 percent higher than the rest of the country, owing to a poor healthcare system and a culture of denial.
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The (US Center for Disease Control) CDC estimates show a 35% increase in new reported AIDS cases in the Deep South, but only a 5.2% increase nationally.
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CBS Evening News Report on the AIDS Epidemic in the Deep South – Click Here
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The southern region of the United States is made up of 16 states and the District of Columbia. The Deep South represents a group of six southern states (Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, South Carolina, and North Carolina). These states are disproportionately affected by the AIDS epidemic. Texas although not the Deep South (the home of ex-Governor & ex-President Geo Bush & presidential candidate Governor Rick Perry) is considered a southern state. Texas has the highest number of people infected with AIDS.
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Nearly 80% of new AIDS cases in the South are among African Americans. The HIV/AIDS epidemic is concentrated in the poorest communities, where African Americans are disproportionately represented..
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HIV and AIDS is an immune system disease with no cure. Many affluent Americans continue to live quiet normal lives in the United States, thanks to the development of expensive drug cocktails that allow a person to manage disease but not stop the spread of it.
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What is AIDS …
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A PBS documentary called “Close to Home” profiling individuals living with and around the disease, showing how a lifetime illness like AIDS impacts U.S. nationally, in the Deep South, the poor, and those living in rural communities that have the least amount of money and resources to deal with it. The documentary is expected to air in early 2012 …
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AIDS is Acquired immune deficiency syndrome or acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease of the human immune system caused by the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). The illness interferes with the immune system making people with AIDS much more likely to get infections, including opportunistic infections and tumors that do not affect people with working immune systems. This susceptibility gets worse as the disease continues.
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HIV is transmitted in many ways, such as anal, vaginal or oral sex, blood transfusion, contaminated hypodermic needles, exchange between mother and baby during pregnancy, childbirth, and breastfeeding. It can be transmitted by any contact of a mucous membrane or the bloodstream with a bodily fluid that has the virus in it, such as the blood, semen, vaginal fluid, preseminal fluid, or breast milk from an infected person.
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For More Information - Click Here to go to The Center For Disease Control Website
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To put it another way … There is some bad pudding cooking in the South !!!
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NO Media in Tampa FL to date has reported on the AIDS Epidemic ...
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