System Map: HIV among African American Community

HIV Among African American Community System Map
Student's Name
Institutional Affiliation
Course
Date
HIV Among African American Community System Map
Black Community (BC) Acceptance and Openness
Despite making up only 12% of the population, open African Americans make up 43% of the country's HIV-positive people in the United States. African-American women diagnosed with HIV decreased by 20% between 2011 and 2015, an encouraging trend that we expect to continue. New HIV diagnoses among Black women will be reduced by at least 15 percent by 2020 (Samuels & Dale, 2022). In contrast to the proportion of HIV-positive white and Hispanic/Latina women, the balance of HIV-positive black women remained disproportionately high. In the United States, 61% of all female HIV infections in 2016 were among the 4,560 Black women diagnosed with HIV.
HIV Education
Black/African American women were 20 percent less likely than white women to be diagnosed with HIV between 2011 and 2015. According to Walker (2017), at least 15 percent of the new HIV diagnoses among Black women will be reduced by 2020. In the United States, 4,560 Black women were HIV-positive in 2016, making up 61% of all female HIV infections.
Community Mobilization and Communication
So far, there has not been a significant mobilization to reduce the number of newly diagnosed African Americans with HIV among Black/African American gay and bisexual men. 10,223 African-Americans with HIV diagnoses in 2016 were identified as gay or bisexual men (Rofes, 2021). African American homosexual and bisexual males were no more likely than any other group to be diagnosed with HIV between 2011 and 2015. There was, however, a 30 percent increase in diagnoses among males aged 25 to 34 years.
Engaging/Supporting Church Members
HIV disparities among young black African American communities have failed to be eliminated in the United States each year due to a lack of engaging and supporting church members. HIV prevention courses for Black/African-American homosexual and bisexual males should continue, or at the very least be re-examined. All people, especially African Americans, should use the most efficient and effective techniques possible to reduce the number of new HIV infections to reduce the number conditions.
Direct Act...