48% blakk oomen ave herpes

[blugiant]

The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released new data showing that upwards of 48% of African-American women are infected with herpes simplex 2 virus.

Overall, Americans are infected with the STD at 16%. Infection rates for American women are nearly twice as high as American men, with 21%, compared to 11.5 %.

However, when race is factored into the equation, the disparities become greatly magnified.

African-Americans currently have a 39.2% infection rate, compared to European-Americans, who have a 12.3% infection rate. That means African-Americans are infected nearly three times more than Whites with the incurable herpes simplex 2.

But when race and gender are factored in, the problems become epidemic, with African-American women showing the highest infection rate of herpes simplex 2 at 48%.

“This study serves as a stark reminder that herpes remains a common and serious health threat in the United States,” said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. “Everyone should be aware of the symptoms, risk factors and steps that can be taken to prevent the spread of this lifelong and incurable infection.”

Dr. Fenton presented the data at the National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia last week.

The CDC reports that most people do not know they are infected and transmitting the disease. It recommends that people seek medical help as soon as they see a rash or sore on their genitals.

racist oyinbo

[blugiant]

Re: 48% blakk oomen ave herpes

tink pon dese tings?

tuskeegee result aftermath?

ow cum so manee more blakk oomen dan blakk men ave herpes? wat does dat sey bout blakk oomen?

doo oonnoo tink diss iss a way fii attakk blakk oomen?

[julie*mango]

Re: 48% blakk oomen ave herpes

cuz aff claset een denial homo oo go luv up pan dem mann an bring it ome to dem ooman...an dem babee maddars...an dem babee maddar fren

[blugiant]

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A BLACK British woman has created a petition blasting an American health organisation report that has been wrongly interpreted by many media to claim that 48 percent of black women in the US have herpes.

Scores of news media carried the report last week, claiming that ‘half of ALL black American women have herpes’.

Susan Onyejiuwa, from Hampshire, told The Voice the statistics misinterpreted from a report by the American Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has spread all over the internet and will stigmatise black women everywhere. “My concerns are based on the fact that the report is ambiguous, it doesn’t actually say that 48 percent of black women have herpes but it is written in a way that is easily misinterpreted.

The CDC are the best people to explain their findings and put out a clearer report,” said 36-yearold Onyejiuwa. She said the CDC should send out a new statement, making it clear that “what the report actually says is that 16 percent of the total American population have herpes and of THESE 16 percent, 48 percent of people fall under the African-American female category,” she said.

Without clearing this up, black women like her will feel stigmatised, she said. “(It will be) very detrimental. Unfortunately there is still a stigma attached to the herpes virus. It gives the impression that somehow black women are more ‘contagious than others,' and it would be best to keep away,” Onyejiuwa said.

RESEARCH

A spokesman from the Centers for Disease Control told The Voice the data, presented in a table that showed that the black women were included in the overall 16 percent of infected Americans, is based on detailed research from population sampling contained in The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

It only applies to people in the United States. “With regard to the HSV-2 prevalence data released March 9, 2010, it is worth noting this is an estimate of HSV- 2 prevalence in the US, not globally or for any other country,” he said. But Onyejiuwa argued: “People are not as discerning in their thinking as they

think. A person is more likely to remember black women have high rates of herpes, not that (some) black women in America have high rates of herpes.”

Angela Birch, a UK-based teenage pregnancy and sexual health consultant, told The Voice she agreed that the CDC data could have been misinterpreted, but she said it was better to focus on the serious message that came from the report – that black people need to practise safe sex because they are being seriously

affected by sexually transmitted infections.

“There is a real problem with sexual mis-health within the black communities particularly within the UK and within our under 25 age group,” Birch told The Voice. “We have a real issue with our sexual behaviour and we are not practising safe sex.

More research needs to be done as to why we are still refusing to have safe sex. The sad fact is proportionately we do have a higher sexually transmitted infections rate than other communties.” Herpes simplex 2 causes genital warts and increases a person’s chances of getting HIV.

* The petition can be found at: www.ipetitions.com/petition/herpesclaimiswrong/

[Amberal37]

Re: 48% blakk oomen ave herpes lies

Thank you for clearing that up again before I jump in.

Possibly misinformation to counter the M.Obama factor?

[blugiant]

Re: 48% blakk oomen ave herpes lies

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: karigeni</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Thank you for clearing that up again before I jump in.

Possibly misinformation to counter the M.Obama factor? </div></div>


didd yu click pon dat racist oyinbo link ann see da pitcha aff michelle obama dem racist oyinbo used. da qwestian iss y racist oyinbo attackinn m. obama ann wat dem implieinn bye usinn ar pitcha inn dat storee?

mii neva kleer itt upp. mii juss like fii putt boat side aff de argument out deer fore mii bunn sum fiyah. yu knoo dat storee wass printed ann poasted bye manee oyinbo media widd da 48 parcent aff awl blakk oomen widdinn dat specifikk age group ave herpes. da storee ave natt been discreditted juss wan blakk ooman challenginn oww oyinbo media interpret da studee

[julie*mango]

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I do not believe that the numbers are accurate, but the picture is not too far off....

[blugiant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _____</div><div class="ubbcode-body">cuz aff claset een denial homo oo go luv up pan dem mann an bring it ome to dem ooman...an dem babee maddars...an dem babee maddar fren </div></div>

yu kno fiyah aff fii bunn awl men fram dem bow widd annada man ann spread dem nastee duttee stds.

still yu knoo dat oomen wey inn denial ann sleeps widd funnee men ann ketch diseases ar natt rited. da racist oyinbo herpes argument qwestianinn blakk oomen promisecuitee cah iff more blakk oomen ave herpes dan blakk men den itt implieinn dat blakk oomen ar more responsible fii da iigh rate aff hiv widdinn da blakk communitee

[blugiant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: _____</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I do not believe that the numbers are accurate, but the picture is not too far off.... </div></div>

skellee iff yu look att itt dat way den yu arguinn dat blakk oomen ar more aff a danger to blakk men widd regard to spreadinn herpes. mii doan agree widd dat cah wii knoo herpes iss spread more easilee fram man to oomen

itt begg da qwestian iff blakk oomen ave grata tendencee fii sleep widd &quot;playas&quot; wey more likelee fii ave herpes? yu knoo sleepinn widd dogg den cumplainn oww imm give dem fleas

[mangoskin]

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what about Tiger &amp; his groupies?

[Derek]

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So, of the 16% that have herpes, 48% are black women?

[britisha]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: blakkgiant</div><div class="ubbcode-body">The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released new data showing that upwards of 48% of African-American women are infected with herpes simplex 2 virus.

Overall, Americans are infected with the STD at 16%. Infection rates for American women are nearly twice as high as American men, with 21%, compared to 11.5 %.

However, when race is factored into the equation, the disparities become greatly magnified.

African-Americans currently have a 39.2% infection rate, compared to European-Americans, who have a 12.3% infection rate. That means African-Americans are infected nearly three times more than Whites with the incurable herpes simplex 2.

But when race and gender are factored in, the problems become epidemic, with African-American women showing the highest infection rate of herpes simplex 2 at 48%.

“This study serves as a stark reminder that herpes remains a common and serious health threat in the United States,” said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. “Everyone should be aware of the symptoms, risk factors and steps that can be taken to prevent the spread of this lifelong and incurable infection.”

Dr. Fenton presented the data at the National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia last week.

The CDC reports that most people do not know they are infected and transmitting the disease. It recommends that people seek medical help as soon as they see a rash or sore on their genitals.

racist oyinbo </div></div>

This wot wan smaddie posted in response: [quote]AntiStupidity says

Typical, people trying to convince themselves that they’re more than they are and making themselves look silly!
If you weren’t so gulllible you would have read the actual report and if you have enough brain cells in your head would have concluded that the report doesn’t emphatically say that 48% of Black Women have Herpes, what it says is that based on the findings of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey which only looks at 5000 people to determine the general health of over 304,000,000 people living in America, the prevalence rate, the prevalence rate amongst black females was 48%. Bearing in mind that black women make up less than 10% of the population, less than 500 of the millions and millions of black women living in America would have been looked at, that coupled with the fact that there are certain known flaws in the formula used to calculate prevalence rates, the CDC would never be so stupid to emphatically say that 48% of Black Women have herpes. Obviously other’s aern’t that bright.

[I guess we'll hexcuze di gramatical errrors]


AND:

Go back an read handah dis wha dem seh bout odda race dat has it and the total numbah of dem...

Yuh cyaan poas heveryting bout dem tings ere...for wrong interpretation will drive oono err YUH mad.

[blugiant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Derek</div><div class="ubbcode-body">So, of the 16% that have herpes, 48% are black women?




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cyaan reallee sey dat eyeddar cah dat report iss natt clearlee written fii draw dat canclusion

oyinbo report fii attakk blakk oomen

[blugiant]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Faithfully</div><div class="ubbcode-body">[quote=blakkgiant]The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) has released new data showing that upwards of 48% of African-American women are infected with herpes simplex 2 virus.

Overall, Americans are infected with the STD at 16%. Infection rates for American women are nearly twice as high as American men, with 21%, compared to 11.5 %.

However, when race is factored into the equation, the disparities become greatly magnified.

African-Americans currently have a 39.2% infection rate, compared to European-Americans, who have a 12.3% infection rate. That means African-Americans are infected nearly three times more than Whites with the incurable herpes simplex 2.

But when race and gender are factored in, the problems become epidemic, with African-American women showing the highest infection rate of herpes simplex 2 at 48%.

“This study serves as a stark reminder that herpes remains a common and serious health threat in the United States,” said Dr. Kevin Fenton, director of the CDC’s National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD and TB Prevention. “Everyone should be aware of the symptoms, risk factors and steps that can be taken to prevent the spread of this lifelong and incurable infection.”

Dr. Fenton presented the data at the National STD Prevention Conference in Atlanta, Georgia last week.

The CDC reports that most people do not know they are infected and transmitting the disease. It recommends that people seek medical help as soon as they see a rash or sore on their genitals.

racist oyinbo </div></div>

This wot wan smaddie posted in response: <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">AntiStupidity says

Typical, people trying to convince themselves that they’re more than they are and making themselves look silly!
If you weren’t so gulllible you would have read the actual report and if you have enough brain cells in your head would have concluded that the report doesn’t emphatically say that 48% of Black Women have Herpes, what it says is that based on the findings of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey which only looks at 5000 people to determine the general health of over 304,000,000 people living in America, the prevalence rate, the prevalence rate amongst black females was 48%. Bearing in mind that black women make up less than 10% of the population, less than 500 of the millions and millions of black women living in America would have been looked at, that coupled with the fact that there are certain known flaws in the formula used to calculate prevalence rates, the CDC would never be so stupid to emphatically say that 48% of Black Women have herpes. Obviously other’s aern’t that bright.

[I guess we'll hexcuze di gramatical errrors]


AND:

Go back an read handah dis wha dem seh bout odda race dat has it and the total numbah of dem...

Yuh cyaan poas heveryting bout dem tings ere...for wrong interpretation will drive oono err YUH mad.
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da ting iss dat diss report was use inn a latt aff oyinbo media fii implie dat 48% aff blakk oomen ave herpes.

[chitowngirl]

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<span style="text-decoration: underline">QuickStats</span>: Percentage of Adults Aged 20--29 Years with Genital Herpes* Infection, by Race/Ethnicity†
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, United States, 1988--1994, 1999--2002, and 2003--2006



* As determined by herpes simplex virus, type 2 (HSV-2) antibody.

† For all years, the categories black and white include persons who reported only one racial group and exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Persons of Mexican-American ethnicity might be of any race.

cdc.gov