The HIV epidemic is improving among women, both in terms of their rates of new diagnoses and the racial disparities between those rates.

To mark National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which is February 7, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report on HIV diagnosis rates among U.S. women between 2010 and 2014, based on data from the National HIV Surveillance System.

During that period, the diagnosis rates for African-American, Latina and white women dropped a respective 22.5 percent, 16.7 percent and 10 percent. At the same time, diagnosis rate disparities between the three groups narrowed. The difference in diagnosis rates between black and white women dropped by 23.3 percent.

Nevertheless, the existing racial disparities in diagnosis rates among women are still considerable. In 2015, Black women were about 16 times more likely than white women to be diagnosed with HIV. Sixty-one percent of diagnoses among women that year were among African Americans, while 19 percent were among whites and 15 percent were among Latinas.

To read the CDC report about HIV diagnosis disparities among African-American women, click here.