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Pubic Opinion on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States : Perceptions of Groups Impacted by the HIV/AIDS Epidemic
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Perceptions of Groups Impacted by the HIV/AIDS Epidemic

In 2006, in an open-ended question about which groups of people are most likely to be infected with HIV/AIDS, the group named most often by the public was gay men (43%), followed by drug users (33%), teens and young people (21%), and promiscuous people or those who have casual sex (17%). Despite the fact that approximately half of new AIDS diagnoses in the U.S. are among African Americans, just 12% named African Americans in this open-ended question.

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