HIV/AIDS demographics in US county and southeast England are similar

doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7501.1209-b

BMJ 2005;330:1209-1210 (21 May), doi:10.1136/bmj.330.7501.1209-b

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HIV/AIDS demographics in US county and southeast England are similar

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EDITOR—Sabin et al report that an increasing minorityof people from six HIV treatment centres in southeast Englandmay need newer antiretroviral treatment to offset exhaustionof existing treatment options.¹ I compared the demographicsof their cohort with a much smaller, but growing populationof identified HIV infected people from Dauphin County, Pennsylvania,United States.

Dauphin County is in southeast central Pennsylvania, an easternUS state adjacent to and south of New York and two hours bycar north northwest of Washington, DC. The county is 525 squaremiles, with an estimated 2003 population of 253 388. The racialbreakdown, according to the 2000 census, is 77.1% white, 16.9%black or Afro-American, 4.1% Hispanic, and 2% Asian.² Some 14.2%of the population is over the age of 65. The median yearly householdincome in 1999 was reported as $41 507 (£22 546; ${euro}$ 32 924)Slightly less than 10% . . . [Full text of this article]

Stefan P Kruszewski, psychiatrist

Harrisburg, PA 17112, USA joeysdogma@comcast.net

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