This HIV researcher explains how socioeconomic factors affect the impact of the coronavirus pandemic: ForbesFrontlines
showed that homeownership rates between whites and African-Americans differ considerably. Renting, per se, doesn’t increase one’s risk of exposure to the COVID-19 virus, but living in high-density housing, such as an apartment building, does.
For COVID-19, your general health matters, too. Various underlying medical conditions increase the risk of severe disease following infection with SARS-CoV-2. Indeed, thenotes that people of any age with certain medical conditions are at increased risk of severe complications. These medical conditions include, for example, asthma, obesity, and diabetes.
Causes of the racial disparities in HIV infection are more difficult to discern. However, we can point to a couple factors. Again, general health matters. Transmission of HIV occurs more frequently if an individual has another sexually transmitted infection . And data from the CDC show that rates ofAccess to healthcare matters, too. We know that the risk of transmitting HIV to another person drops dramatically if an HIV-positive individual is receiving adequate care.
We know, too, that pre-exposure prophylaxis, or PrEP, greatly reduces one’s risk of becoming infected with HIV. However, among African American men who have sex with men lags behind their white counterparts. Combined, these various factors contribute to the increased burden of HIV/AIDS among African Americans.The immediate reasons that COVID-19 and HIV/AIDS affect African Americans disproportionately differ. But the underlying reasons do not. According to a
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