U.S.: Washington, D.C., leads the nation in AIDS incidence
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Last Update: 2020-07-07
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washington Department of Healthreleased a report on the 2ndthe Capital Washington area last year in the United States the highest incidence of AIDS in the united States, more than nine times the national average2006
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8 per 100,000 people in Washington, D.C., with a population of about 600,000, was diagnosed with AIDS, well above the national average of 14 percent, and more than other major cities such as Philadelphia,New York
,Detroit and Chicago, the report saidIn addition,, the number of people living with HIV in the Washington areahas reached 1.
Two40,000, eight of them African-American of HIV-positive cases in the U.S., 9 percent in the Washington area , this is the first report devoted to the spread of AIDS in the Washington area, said Harder, an official with the Washington Department of Health But the report doesn't say why the HIV transmission is so severe in the Washington area According to statistics
about 33 million people worldwide are currently infected with HIV, including about 1 million from the United States
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