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Article: AIDS in the Black community: The serious still isn't serious
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- Michigan Quarterly Review
- Article date:
- July 8, 2000
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Greer-Bey, Tim
Michigan Citizen
07-08-2000
AIDS in the Black community: The serious still isn't serious
Since its discovery within the borders of the United States in 1981, AIDS
has decimated a countless number of lives. And while a recent Department of
Health and Human Services' study indicates that powerful anti-HIV
medications have significantly reduced the number of AIDS-related deaths in
America - down 47 percent from 1996 to 1997- this optimistic news reflects
little on what is taking place within the Black community.
Why?
Well, there are a couple of factors worth looking at:
First of all, despite the virtual death sentence that HIV infection carries
for a poor person, poor Blacks continue to ...