{"id":2903,"date":"2023-04-20T20:02:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2903"},"modified":"2023-04-20T20:02:25","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T20:02:25","slug":"this-powerful-hiv-prevention-initiative-centers-pleasure-for-black-women-a-demo-that-accounts-for-60-of-new-hiv-infections-in-u-s-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/?p=2903","title":{"rendered":"This Powerful HIV-Prevention Initiative Centers Pleasure for Black Women\u2014A Demo That Accounts for 60% of New HIV Infections in U.S. Women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%20370%20247'%3E%3C\/svg%3E\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185-1024x592.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"zeen-lazy-load-base zeen-lazy-load wp-image-2904\"\/><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"592\" src=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185-1024x592.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185-1024x592.png 1024w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185-770x445.png 770w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185-293x169.png 293w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185-390x225.png 390w, https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/image-185.png 1170w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>Though women may account for a small portion of total HIV diagnoses in the United States (<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kff.org\/hivaids\/fact-sheet\/women-and-hivaids-in-the-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">about one out of every five new cases<\/a>), the racial disparity therein points to a group overlooked for prevention: Black women. Despite making up 14 percent of women in the U.S.,\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jamanetworkopen\/fullarticle\/2778348\" target=\"_blank\">Black women account for 60 percent of women\u2019s HIV infections in this country<\/a>. The outsize prevalence of HIV among Black women has led to their\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchhstp\/newsroom\/docs\/factsheets\/cdc-hiv-aa-508.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">designation by the medical community<\/a>\u00a0over the past several decades as an\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/32212993\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;at-risk&#8221; group<\/a>\u00a0for contracting the virus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Read more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/hiv-prevention-black-women\/\">https:\/\/www.wellandgood.com\/hiv-prevention-black-women\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though women may account for a small portion of total HIV diagnoses in the United States (about one out of every five new cases), the racial disparity therein points to a group overlooked for prevention: Black women. Despite making up 14 percent of women in the U.S.,\u00a0Black women account for 60 percent of women\u2019s HIV infections in this country. The outsize prevalence of HIV among Black women has led to their\u00a0designation by the medical community\u00a0over the past several decades as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-preventative-care"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2905,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions\/2905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/healthnews.zone\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}