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The return of the International AIDS Conference to the U.S. after 22 years away has prompted many reflections on the U.S. epidemic and its global context. CDC researchers sought to define the intersection of the two by examining the epidemic among U.S. immigrants.
Using available data from 46 states and 5 territories, researchers identified almost 192,000 individuals who received HIV diagnoses in the U.S. between 2007 and 2010. Of these, about 31,000 (16%) were born in one of 186 other countries, most commonly Mexico, Haiti, and Cuba. Mean age at diagnosis was similar to that of U.S.-born individuals, but immigrants were more likely to be female (27% vs. 22%), Hispanic (58% vs. 15%), or Asian (6% vs. 1%). They were also more likely to report…