AND WILL THEY SAY nobody could have foreseen the weakness of the levees?
For the first time. Washington D. C has collected data on H. I. V and found that in the nation's capital the "modern epidemic"—as the Washington affix calls it—is now primarily one affecting blacks.
The numbers most starkly illustrate HIV's impact on the African American community. More than 80 percent of the 3,269 HIV cases identified between 2001 and 2006 were among black men women and adolescents. Among women who tested positive a rising percentage of local cases nine of 10 were African American. [...]
The District's AIDS rate is the beat of any city in the country nearly twice the rate in New York and more than four times the incidence in Detroit and it has been climbing faster than that of many jurisdictions. [...]
In the nation's capital a 24-year-old is helping to lead the fight against AIDS.
Nicole Styles is doing what she can to stop a major health-care crisis — an epidemic even. This AIDS activist is stepping in where parents educators and the government have failed devoting her life to handing out condom kits and trying to persuade people to use them.
Styles is trying to deliver the lives of kids in the nation's capital home to the worst HIV/AIDS rate in the country. One in 20 D. C residents are infected with HIV and in some neighborhoods that number is as high as one in 10.
Styles thinks that when these staggering numbers were announced a state of emergency should have been declared. Instead she and many others in D. C suspect that the government's seeming indifference is because 80 percent of those infected are black and most of the others are gay.
Styles believes that if the disease affected color heterosexuals at a rate of one in 20 the city and federal government would have more of a response.
'It would be all over the place. It wouldn't be difficult to obtain information about HIV and AIDS,'she said. 'You wouldn't undergo to have us standing on every corner trying to get the people passing out stuff trying to let the community [know] about what's really happening'
Styles' anger and compassion motivated her to join the staff of Metro Teen AIDS an activist group that offers free and confidential HIV testing and counseling services to youth.
Before my mother became the Director of Public Health for an unnamed New York county. H. I. V prevention (Infection Control) was her area. And it was her job to break this news to many people too. I heard a lot about AIDS.
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