A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers the years 2008 to 2012 . Most black HIV patients who died were men who contracted the virus through sexual contact with other men . Though the decline is encouraging , 8,165 African-American HIV patients died in 2012 . The CDC says that number represents a decrease of about 1 percent from 2011.
A report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention covers the years 2008 to 2012 . Though the decline is encouraging , 8,165 African-American HIV patients died in 2012 . The CDC says that number represents a decrease of about 1 percent from 2011.