"Nearly 90 percent of Russia's HIV infections occur among addicts sharing dirty needles" (Klesius, p.35). This percentage from a National Geographic magazine would differ heavily from that of the United States. The Henry J Kaiser Family Foundation reported that through the year 2002 in the state of Colorado that only 9% of aids cases in the state were due to injection drug use and 25% on the national level. (Kaiser Family Foundation) In the United States, Men who have sex with men would more closely share Russia's dirty needle problem for being the number 1 cause for AIDS transmission with 46% in the U.S. and 69% in the state of Colorado. These figures here in the states prove to coincide with the majority of Americans view on who they think is the stereotypical person infected with AIDS, gay males.
I took the liberty of asking random Americans who they thought was stereotypical person in America infected with AIDS. The results didn't vary from my understanding of previous......

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Title: Aids
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