Sex among heterosexuals is the biggest, most common source of transmission among African Americans, followed by homosexual relations. According to John M. Karon, Patricia L. Fleming, Richard W. Steketee, and Kevin M. De Cock in the article titled HIV in the United States at the Turn of the Century: An Epidemic in Transition “Compared with diagnoses made during 1990, the proportion of all diagnoses made during 1999 was substantially smaller for Whites, MSM. and female IDUs; the proportion was substantially larger for African Americans, residents of the South, and both men and women infected through heterosexual contact.” (Karon, et al.,2001) The overall incidence is astonishing as Karon, et al., (2001) confirms that “persons living with AIDS
