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Originally Posted by KevinTheOmnivore
I'm not sure who's worse, Rongi for posting a thread in all caps, informing us that the KKK doesn't like black people, or Pharaoh for that stupid response.  |
What's so stupid about it?
Information about AIDS has failed to get across to black people that they are at the greatest risk. Anyone would assume form AIDS campaigns that white heterosexuals are the most likely to get AIDS.
'HIV/Aids is now the biggest cause of death among young black women in America - but too little is being done to combat it, a leading research organisation has said.
In states like Alabama and others in the country's Deep South, non-white women make up 13% of the population - but make up nearly 70% of Aids infections.
Meanwhile, half of the new HIV victims in the US are people under the age of 25 - and most of them are black, and for black women aged 24-35, Aids is the number one cause of death.
Dr Judith Auerbach, director of public policy for the American Foundation for Aids Research (Amfar) told BBC World Service's Analysis programme that this statistic was "staggering."
"Part of what's staggering is that most Americans - including young women, and young black women in particular - are unaware of this fact," she added.
"How we've got there is probably the result of some neglect in recognising who's really at risk in this country at this point in time."
"Part of what's so shocking is the disproportionate increase in rates, and specifically among African-American women, such that it leads to death."
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And the reason why blacks aren't targetted in AIDS campaigns, is political correctness, they don't want to portray AIDS as a black disease.