Almost every day, a new innovation takes place in the medicinal world. Discoveries of life saving drugs help to increase the longevity of human life. However, there is one fatal disease that still awaits its cure, AIDS.

Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome is known to approximately affect the lives of about 1 million Americans. There are certain sects of society such as teenagers, drug users and homosexuals that are more vulnerable to the disease. The members of the Afro- Caribbean community amount to about 50 percent of those attacked by this fatal disease. Although immense research is being conducted in this domain, yet the numbers of people affected with AIDS is increasing by the day. The statistics highlighting the rate of fatality caused due to AIDS projects a drastic increase since the year 1981. While only 30 lives were lost to AIDS in America in 1981, the number rose to 14,627 by the year 2006.

Records furnished by CDC at the culmination of 2005 display 437,982 number of people affected with AIDS in America. Out of these, 44 percent were African Americans, 35 percent Caucasians, 19 percent Hispanics and 1 percent belonged to other races. A comparison between the genders showed seventy-seven percent of adults and adolescents suffering from AIDS as men. 1411 children below the age bracket of 13 years were diagnosed with the disease. The predominant reason behind the contraction of this disease in young children happens to be their HIV infested mothers. HIV can be transmitted from the mother to the child during course of pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding. Apart from the variation in the incidence of the disease in genders, statistics also showcase higher rate of occurrence of AIDS in whites compared to the black community. The figures of 2006 reveal 390,000 white people with HIV or AIDS in comparison to 409,000 black people suffering from the same.

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