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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April 14, 2009
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