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May 5, 2008

Expert Calls for Emergency HIV Prevention Plan

According to  Beny J. Primm, MD, executive director of the Addiction Research and Treatment Corporation, a Brooklyn-based AIDS policy group, the United States is in urgent need of a specific domestic HIV/AIDS prevention program, The Hartford Courant reports (courant.com, 5/5).

Dr. Primm says rising rates of HIV among African Americans and Latinos in the country require an urgent response.

“It’s not on the radar screen. There are not enough voices being raised,” says Primm, who called infections among African-American women an “emergency.”

According to the article, one in seven black men in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood has HIV.


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Boyer c. August, Hayward, CA, 2008-05-07 12:44:22
It is just mind bogeling that leaders just do not read the cdc.org report on newest and largest infection group more often, and this is a non discriminatory disease, so clildren of all colors here in the U.S.A. are getting this disease. This is not a color issue, this is a sexual activeity Issue, as we, as humans progress in time, we become more sexualy active,so we need to teach our children(all races) even eairler, how to protect themselves and their partner.Just check the cdc.org for truth

bepeag, , 2008-05-06 10:53:20
Guys, I still don't understand why people are not listening to Stephen Lewis. He said that we should be asking the Africans for help - they know this thing inside and out, anyone heard of TEAM work???

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