the United States. This can be seen in events like the Japanese Internment camps like Camp Manzanar that were built during World War II for Japanese Americans to live in and were subject to inhumane treatment. As Asian Americans have not been coming to America in the numbers of Hispanic immigrants and African Americans, there have been fewer instances in which they have been used in medical trials and unfairly compensated. In addition, as the wave of migration of Asians to the United States has happened more recently, the history of this group in the United States is relatively young. As a result, there have not been governmental efforts to address health disparities between Asian Americans and the general populations like there have been with other groups like Hispanic Americans, African Americans, and Native Americans. Asian Americans are the fastest-growing major racial or ethnic group in the United States according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data. As this race has become more of an integral part of US population more initiatives have been implemented such to address health needs specifically such the Initiative on Race implemented by President Clinton to eliminate health disparities in and among all racial and ethnic groups. Further research within the past 20 years has shown that Asian Americans are at high risk for hepatitis B, liver cancer, tuberculosis, and lung cancer, among other conditions. The Asian American cancer burden is unique as they are the only racial/ethnic population to experience cancer as the leading cause of death and it has unusual aspects such as experiencing proportionally more cancers of infectious origin, such as human papillomavirus‐induced cervical cancer, hepatitis B virus‐induced liver cancer, and stomach cancer, than any other racial/ethnic population and, at the same time, experiencing an increasing number of cancers associated with “Westernization.” Similarly, Asian Americans have a heightened risk of type 2 diabetes as its presence makes up 21% of the Asian American population, twice as high as non-Hispanic whites. Finally, cardiovascular disease, the leading cause of death for all Americans, continues to disproportionally affect the Asian Americans who are disadvantageous in society due to various social determinants. These social determinants leading to health disparity include but not limit to lack of language proficiency, health illiteracy due to lower educational attainment, racial discrimination, economic instability and poor community engagement. Maternal and child health In 2002, it was reported