Christopher Barnhill, "Living with HIV"
BORN WITH AIDS HE SPEAKS OUT !! NEED TO TEACH THE YOUTH NOW !!
Despite initially being mischaracterized, HIV/AIDS has disproportionately affected black Americans since the very beginning of the epidemic. Today we comprise 14 percent of the U.S. population but account for 44 percent of all new HIV infections. Young black gay and bis*xual men are especially at risk. Meanwhile the estimated rate of new HIV infections for black women is more than 15 times as high as the rate for white women, and more than three times as high as that of Latina women. And while we are making tremendous progress to fight the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, too much misplaced blame, misinformation and a general lack of outrage and personal responsibility still exists in our communities.
That said, we are at a deciding moment in the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic. We have the means to end the AIDS epidemic. Research findings over the last two years have ushered in new biomedical tools that are dramatically more promising than anything we've seen in the past.
Despite initially being mischaracterized, HIV/AIDS has disproportionately affected black Americans since the very beginning of the epidemic. Today we comprise 14 percent of the U.S. population but account for 44 percent of all new HIV infections. Young black gay and bis*xual men are especially at risk. Meanwhile the estimated rate of new HIV infections for black women is more than 15 times as high as the rate for white women, and more than three times as high as that of Latina women. And while we are making tremendous progress to fight the stigma associated with HIV/AIDS, too much misplaced blame, misinformation and a general lack of outrage and personal responsibility still exists in our communities.
That said, we are at a deciding moment in the trajectory of the AIDS epidemic. We have the means to end the AIDS epidemic. Research findings over the last two years have ushered in new biomedical tools that are dramatically more promising than anything we've seen in the past.
