{"id":12267,"date":"2012-11-30T13:51:25","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T23:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=12267"},"modified":"2021-01-20T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2021-01-21T00:13:47","slug":"hivaids-diagnosis-in-native-hawaiians-concerns-researchers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2012\/11\/30\/hivaids-diagnosis-in-native-hawaiians-concerns-researchers\/","title":{"rendered":"HIV\/AIDS<\/abbr> diagnosis in Native Hawaiians concerns researchers"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> < 1<\/span> minute<\/span><\/span>
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Jason Barbour, an HIV<\/abbr> immunologist with the John A. Burns School of Medicine’s Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for AIDS<\/abbr>, hopes a cure will soon be discovered (photo courtesy John A. Burns School of Medicine)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

December 1 marks World AIDS<\/abbr> Day<\/a>, a global health day first celebrated in 1988 to unite the world in the fight against HIV<\/abbr>.<\/p>\n

As the day approaches, news from the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for AIDS<\/abbr><\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Mānoa<\/a> John A. Burns School of Medicine<\/a> brings disturbing findings about the disease’s impact on the Native Hawaiian population.<\/p>\n

Researchers have found that HIV\/AIDS<\/abbr> is being diagnosed in Native Hawaiians more than twice as often as Caucasians, and that Native Hawaiians with HIV\/AIDS<\/abbr> are three times more likely to need hospitalization.<\/p>\n

Some 3,000 people in Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> live with HIV\/AIDS<\/abbr>. One in four of them, about 25 percent, don’t even realize they are carrying the virus.<\/p>\n

Read the UHMedNow<\/em> article<\/a> to learn more about how UH<\/abbr> researchers at the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for AIDS<\/abbr> are working to combat this disparity or read the news reports by Hawaii News Now<\/em><\/a> and KHON<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers at the UH<\/abbr> medical school’s Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Center for AIDS<\/abbr> report on the disparity in the disease’s diagnosis rate amongst the Native Hawaiian population.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,24],"tags":[165,993,31,9],"class_list":["post-12267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-uh-in-the-news","tag-health","tag-hivaids","tag-john-a-burns-school-of-medicine","tag-uh-manoa","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t