The Fight Against HIV/AIDS…Why Sitting at the Table Matters.
Editorial Commemorating National Black HIV AIDS Day (February 7, 2012)

Michael Hinson and Lisa Fager Bediako

THE DATA

Today, African Americans face the most severe rates of HIV infection in the nation

• African Americans make up just 14% of the total U.S. population, but represent almost half of those living with HIV and about half of those with AIDS who die each year

Within the black community, HIV has many faces: young and old, male and female, straight and gay

• It’s our black women in their 30s or 40s for whom HIV is now the 3rd leading cause of death

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