Reading time: < 1minuteJason Barbour, an HIV immunologist with the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS, hopes a cure will soon be discovered (photo courtesy John A. Burns School of Medicine)
December 1 marks , a global health day first celebrated in 1988 to unite the world in the fight against HIV.
As the day approaches, news from the at the brings disturbing findings about the disease’s impact on the Native Hawaiian population.
Researchers have found that HIV/AIDS is being diagnosed in Native Hawaiians more than twice as often as Caucasians, and that Native Hawaiians with HIV/AIDS are three times more likely to need hospitalization.
Some 3,000 people in Hawaiʻi live with HIV/AIDS. One in four of them, about 25 percent, don’t even realize they are carrying the virus.
Read the to learn more about how 东精影业 researchers at the Hawaiʻi Center for AIDS are working to combat this disparity or read the news reports by and .
