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Respect Yourself, Protect Yourself
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Washington Informer
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February 15, 2006
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- Chinn, Barbara
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Chinn, Barbara
Washington Informer
02-15-2006
If you are someplace where you can see 20 residents of the District of
Columbia, chances are one of them is HIV-positive. If you're someplace
where you can see 50 D.C. residents, it's likely one of them has AIDS.
And eight out of every 10 people in D.C. who are HIV-positive or have AIDS
are African American.
Even more shocking, as many as one-third of the people who are HIV-positive
don't even know it.
Tuesday, Feb. 7, was National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. It was an
opportunity to remind our community that HIV/AIDS is a killer and it's
stalking African Americans.
The situation is abysmal all across the United States. In 2003, African
Americans, who ...
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