When planning a community teaching event, the nurse should recognize that the group in which HIV infection is growing most rapidly is
a. adults older than 50 years.
b. blacks and Hispanics.
c. black teenagers.
d. gay white men.
A
An overlooked population of rapidly growing HIV-positive people are those older than the age of 50 . In 2004 they represented 16% of all new cases. Minorities are also heavily affected by HIV infection. Teenagers do not have a high rate of HIV infection overall. Gay white men have high rates of infection, but their rates of infection are decreasing as a percentage of the overall population of HIV infected individuals.
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