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The Research & Education Group in Portland is the Northwest AETC's Oregon State Office. Founded in 1982 as the Oregon AIDS Task Force, The Research & Education Group is the largest community-based HIV research program in the Pacific Northwest. Its consortium of 30 participating physician investigators and mid-level practitioners in Oregon and Southwest Washington provide primary care to over 2900 HIV patients at 13 clinical sites in the Portland area, Salem, and Eugene. The Research & Education Group's physicians care for over 80% of patients currently receiving HIV medical care in Oregon. The Research & Education Group is closely affiliated with the Multnomah County Department of Health's HIV Health Services Center in Portland, a Northwest AETC subcontractor and the largest Ryan White CARE Act Title III clinic in Oregon, serving over 600 HIV-infected patients.
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As of September 2006, there were 4,493 persons living with HIV/AIDS in Oregon. According to the Oregon Department of Human Services’ HIV/AIDS Epidemiological Profile 2004 (http://egov.oregon.gov/DHS/ph/hiv/data/docs/final.pdf [743K]), rates of newly diagnosed HIV/AIDS infection in Oregon were higher among men (14 per 100,000) than women (3 per 100,000) from 2002-2004. Additionally, rates among Black/African Americans (46 per 100,000) and Hispanics (11 per 100,000) greatly exceeded rates among non-Hispanic whites (7 per 100,000).
The majority of HIV & AIDS cases have been reported in Multnomah County, which is home to 20% of the state’s population but accounts for 60% of people living with HIV/AIDS in the state.
For more information, please contact the Oregon Department of Human Services HIV/STD/TB Programs (http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/hst/index.shtml).
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