Guest guest Posted January 8, 2002 Report Share Posted January 8, 2002 Only a limited number of studies have examined the incidence of HIV/AIDS among the 4.17 million migrant and seasonal U.S. farmworkers and their dependants.. Small case studies have reported seroprevalence rates among farmworkers ranging from 0.175% to 12.6%. A random sample of 600 Latino migrant workers and their families, conducted in their South Texas homes, found a seroprevalence rate of 0.175%. Seventy percent of those tested were women. Earlier, non-randomized studies performed on mostly black residents of migrant labor camps found significantly higher infection rates. A 1987 North Carolina study of 426 migrants discovered that 2.6% were HIV positive. This blind study analyzed serum samples collected at migrant clinics for other purposes. Its subject population was 53% male and 47% female, 61.7% black and 29.3% Hispanic. All who tested HIV positive were black and most (73%) were male. A 1991 South Carolina study conducted in migrant camps revealed that 25 (12.6% of the 198 individuals tested were HIV positive. Of the subjects tested, 85% were male, 90.9% were black, and 75% were single males. In this group, 24 of the 25 who tested positive were black. A 1992 Florida study was conducted door-to-door in migrant labor camps. Of the 518 individuals who were offered a test, 310 accepted, and 15 (4.8%) tested [message truncated] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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