Disease surveillance, mortality and race: The case of HIV/AIDS in the United States

553/2021 Frederikke Frehr Kristensen and Paul Sharp

We demonstrate the importance of disease surveillance on cases and mortality during a pandemic through the example of HIV/AIDS in the United States, where it arrived in some states earlier than others, and had a particularly severe impact on African American communities. The effect remains, particularly for this group, even after the introduction of an effective treatment in 1996.

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