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121. AIDS rates are about the same in both the US and Europe.

AIDS in Europe varies from .1 % in Central Europe (1-2 per 100,000) to 1% in Eastern Europe (Mainly Russia, Eastern Europe now 30 per 100,000 infection rare) ). Most Eastern European inflection is tied in with Drug use.
http://www.avert.org/hiv-aids-europe.htm

Western Europe is holding at 5-8 per hundred thousand infection rate.

In the above site I could NOT find a USA per 100,000 number, used Federal Central for Disease Control (CDC) data which emphasis percentage of new AIDS in various categories as oppose to 100,000. Did find one referring to AIDS per 100,000 but it is divided by race:



http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/resources/factsheets/us.htm#ref2

For a proper comparison, you have to add the males to females and then divide by 2. You can NOT add White, Black and Hispanic for whites are still over 70% of the populations. Thus you have to know the actual percentage of total population to accurately combine the race numbers. An additional problem is that among African-American drug use is high, through not believed to be as high as Eastern Europe drug use.

Thus white, male AND female is 18.6, dived by 2 that comes out to 9.3 per 100,000 people. Much lower then Eastern Europe, but about the same as Western through higher then Central Europe (Through I have my problems with Central European statistics, Germany is often considered WESTERN Europe, Poland, Hungary and the former Warsaw Pact countries are called "Central Europe" and in all of them I can see good reasons for professionals to lie about the AIDS rates, i.e. the rates are low for the simple fact no one goes to a Doctor to see if they have AIDS, and when the do go to a Doctor, the Doctors find it is to their financial benefit NOT to report that someone has AIDS, thus low AIDS rates for no one wants to find AIDS).

The problem is you can NOT really compare European with American AIDS rate do to the fact much of AIDS transmission is via needles.

In the 1990s it was reported that Drugs was the number one way AIDS was spread even in the US, more recent studies have made Drugs #3, behind homosexual and hetorsexual transmission.

http://www.cdc.gov/hiv/topics/surveillance/basic.htm#exposure

Thus the US rates of AIDS seems to be the same as Europe, clearly true of Western Europe. Russia and the rest of the Former Soviet Union (Eastern Europe) have had to face AIDS for it is tied in with their Massive drug problem and the low rate in Central Europe (Poland and the rest of the Former Warsaw Pact countries) I have no faith in their reported AIDS rates due to the fact they are so much lower then Western and Eastern European rates.