A Fairer Health System Must Include a Plan to End HIV
over 36,000 joined the more than 1 million people in the U.S. living with HIV orvAIDS. Of those living with the virus, an estimated 40 percent are Black — despite Blacks making up just 13 percent of the U.S.
population.Sadly, this trend shows no sign of slowing down. Although biomedical advances and therapeutic medicine exist today to radically change the trajectory of the virus and improve the lives of persons living with HIV, Black people still account for approximately 42 percent of all new cases.
Perhaps most alarming is that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a 7 percent increase among Black people in the 25-34 age group between 2014 and 2018.
While we don’t have a complete picture of the impact of COVID-19 and the Omicron variant on those living with HIV, it is already certain that this virus disproportionately ravished the Black community, with aggression.
