Hiv & Youth

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...seroprevalence in the Job Corps by St. Louise et al and a recently reported study from the military provide important missing pieces in the puzzle of the epidemic among American youth. To my knowledge, they are the only two large, population-based surveys in existence. Both studies document that HIV has entered the adolescent population in this country and substantiate the observation that many adults with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) were infected as teenagers. According to St. Louis et al, the overall seroprevalence among 137 209 Job Corps students is 3.6 per 1000" (Hein, 1991, 2430). According to Futterman and her colleagues (1993), there is a prevalence of HIV in young people aged 13 to 21 (1177). HIV has unique manifestations in adolescents. A "comprehensive evaluation and treatment program" (1177) was created in 1987 in New York City (1177). They said that: "One third of the HIV-positive patients were female and four fifths were African-American or Hispanic" (Futterman, et al, 1993, 1177). The prevalence of HIV in youths is alarming. Without proper counseling and education, the instances of HIV in...

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