The Future Of AIDS Prevention in Connecticut
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Three Pronged Attack on HIV/AIDS |
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Need For a Plan...
The first step in implementing an effective prevention plan for the aforementioned groups, however, is the identification of affected communities and the recognition of what needs to be done.
Although Fairfield County contains two other cities with exceptionally high AIDS rates (Norwalk, 598; Stamford, 658), the prevention plan should focus, primarily, on the city of Bridgeport, where AIDS rates more than three times the national average have been the relative norm throughout the epidemic (1).
Within the city of Bridgeport, any and all future designs should target three large groups (all of which have been particularly affected by HIV/AIDS within the last few years): intravenous drug users, African Americans, and Hispanics.
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