Black women account for the majority of new HIV infections among women. Despite staggering rates, awareness and treatment efforts still focus on men.
in the U.S. in 2018, the data set year used for comparisons by the CDC. About 69% were among men who have sex with men.
The medication was approved for use in 2012, but “the majority of these 10 years have really been focused on getting messages to gay men, and therefore PrEP became a biomedical HIV prevention, an intervention, that was not necessarily geared toward the lives of Black women,” said Kamila Alexander, an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing who studies HIV disparities.“That opportunity was completely missed,” she said.
Alexander, who is also an expert in intimate partner violence and relationships, said some women may not expect a partner to expose them to the virus or expect themselves to have it because the majority of cases occur in men who have sex with men.
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