Burden ofHIV Highest for Blacks, CDC Reports
 Although blacks make up only 13.6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 50.3 percent of all diagnosed
 cases of HIV, federal health officials reported Thursday.

Treatment Only Works if Someone Knows They Are Infected
It was in 1986 that AIDS became a widely publicized disease known to strike homosexual men and intravenous drug users. The word most often used to describe AIDS was "deadly," because there was no cure or effective treatment, and patients often died within months of diagnosis. Then the disease began to spread among women and the general population. A brief glimpse at statistics over the years shows how dramatically the AIDS epidemic among women has grown in this country.

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Houston's HIV Infection Rate Nearly Twice National Average
Houston's HIV infection rate is nearly twice the national average, according to figures the city health department cited Monday as its most accurate estimate ever. In 2006, about 1,700 Harris County residents became HIV-positive. "In one year, one in 2,000 Houstonians becomes infected with HIV," said Dr. Tom Giordano, medical director at the Harris County Hospital District's Thomas Street Health Center, which treats about 4,000 HIV patients a year. "That's a pretty alarming statistic."

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