Are African Americans more vulnerable to AIDS?!
Question: Are African Americans more vulnerable to AIDS!?
Statistics indicate it is one of the leading causes for the death of African women in America!. Is the reason for this physiological!? Are certain races more vulnerable to HIV transmission than others!?Www@Answer-Health@Com
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Not really!. It's just a population that HIV got established in, like the gay community, or subsaharan Africa, or parts of Asia!. HIV has never been well established in the heterosexual white, asian or latino populations in America!. There's no real biological reason it can't get established though!.
Well!. That's technically not true!. There's a rarish gene called CCR5-D32 that makes it extremely difficult to contract HIV through mucosal contact- it basically means you have to have an HIV contaminated fluid in contact with your blood!. People who have CCR5-D32 copies from both parents have the above resistance!. People who have only one get nothing special!. People who trace their ancestry back to Europe seem to have this gene more often than people of African descent, but this is more of a 'novelty' in HIV epidemiology!. It doesn't contribute much!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
Well!. That's technically not true!. There's a rarish gene called CCR5-D32 that makes it extremely difficult to contract HIV through mucosal contact- it basically means you have to have an HIV contaminated fluid in contact with your blood!. People who have CCR5-D32 copies from both parents have the above resistance!. People who have only one get nothing special!. People who trace their ancestry back to Europe seem to have this gene more often than people of African descent, but this is more of a 'novelty' in HIV epidemiology!. It doesn't contribute much!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
They are not more vulnerable at all!. They run the same risks as anyone else!. It's all about protecting yourself, drug needles and so on!. That's why the statistics are higher, but not because they are more vulnerable!.Www@Answer-Health@Com
No its because black and spanish men some are "downlow" which means they have sex with guys and pretend to be straight and most of them dont use condoms and they have sex with there wifes or girlfriends without condoms!.Www@Answer-Health@Com