To Make Headway in the Fight Against HIV, We Have to Treat It Like Every Other Health Condition
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Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a drug that protects people from HIV. Though this has been known by scientists and health care professionals for over eight years, many Black women are unaware of the drug or about their own vulnerabilities to the virus.
According to the most recent figures on HIV infections in this country, Black women account for 57% of all seroconversions among women, even though they only represent 13% of the total population of women in the United States. And of those HIV transmissions, 92% occurred through heterosexual sex.
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