Author Archives: By: Janet C. ClevelandYou don't have to be HIV-positive or know someone with AIDS to recognize the devastating impact that HIV is having on African Americans across the United States. More African Americans are living with and dying from AIDS than any other population in the United States. February 7, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness & Information Day, should remind us to take action against HIV n to get educated about HIV, get tested for the virus and to get involved in our community's fight to prevent new infections.

Stopping AIDS starts with us

by By: Janet C. ClevelandYou don't have to be HIV-positive or know someone with AIDS to recognize the devastating impact that HIV is having on African Americans across the United States. More African Americans are living with and dying from AIDS than any other population in the United States. February 7, National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness & Information Day, should remind us to take action against HIV n to get educated about HIV, get tested for the virus and to get involved in our community's fight to prevent new infections. February 10, 2005November 8, 2023

The latest data show that blacks accounted for more than half of all new HIV diagnoses in 32 states from 2000 to 2003, while making up just 13 percent of the population in those states. In 2003, black men had the highest HIV/AIDS rate of any group n nearly seven times the rate of white […]