The first case of HIV in a<unk>  was recorded in 1981. Since then, numerous<unk>  have been infected with the HIV/AIDS virus. The majority of HIV/AIDS cases in<unk>  are directly influenced by high-risk sexual activities, injectional drug use, the spread of medical misinformation, and the lack of adequate reproductive health resources in the United States.<unk>  of color, LGBTQ<unk> , homeless<unk> ,<unk>  sex workers, and<unk>  intravenous drug users are at an extremely high-risk for contracting the HIV/AIDS virus. In an article published by the Annual Review of Sociology, Celeste Watkins Hayes, an American sociologist, scholar, and professor wrote,<unk>  are more likely to be forced into survival-focused behaviors such as transactional sex for money, housing, protection, employment, and other basic needs; power-imbalanced relationships with older men; and other partnerings in which they cannot dictate the terms of condom use, monogamy, or HIV." From the start of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S.,<unk>  have been excluded and erased from the medical, governmental, and societal institutions that aim to prevent and treat HIV/AIDS. Initially, the medical community in the U.S. deemed lesbian, bisexual and queer<unk> , as well as<unk>  who have sex with<unk>  (WSW), immune to the HIV/AIDS virus. Although this was later corrected, the spread of such false information had resulted in many<unk>  engaging in high risk sexual activities, due to the belief that they were unable to contract the HIV/AIDS virus. Lesbian, bisexual, and queer<unk>  who become infected with HIV/AIDS are statistically classified in the U.S. as heterosexual, intravenous drug, or indefinable transmission, despite the fact that it could have been contracted from another<unk> . Lesbian, bisexual, and queer<unk>  who are infected with the HIV/AIDS virus through sexual assault by men are also statistically categorized as heterosexual transmission.<unk>  with HIV/AIDS have been excluded from medical studies, clinical trials, financial grants, reproductive health resources, and an adequate HIV education.<unk>  with the HIV/AIDS virus got less attention from medical, governmental, and societal institutions because of the focus on men with the HIV/AIDS virus. __TOC__
Women and HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS in Asia
HIV and men who have sex with men
Intimate partner violence and U.S. military populations
HIV/AIDS in Europe
FACE AIDS
HIV-positive people
HIV/AIDS in North America