April 14, 2009

DO YOU KNOW YOUR STATUS??? I'M NOT TALKIN FACEBOOK!

In releasing the first report on the AIDS epidemic in 2007, city officials laid out an action agenda calling for a "modern response" to a "modern epidemic." Two years later, little has changed except the name of the problem -- which city officials now refer to as a "generalized and severe epidemic," and just in case you don't know the difference between the two, the latter involves infection rates "higher than West Africa." - Washington Post March 19, 2009

"Our rates (Washington, DC) are higher than West Africa," said Shannon L. Hader, director of the District's HIV/AIDS Administration, who once led the Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work in Zimbabwe. "They're on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya."

1 in 90 African American women is infected with HIV.

HIV/AIDS is the number one killer of African American women ages 25-34 says the Center for Disease Control.

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