... within the African-American community, HIV-positive straight black women and HIV-positive gay black men are finding common ground in a new ... example of the pervasive homophobia and HIV stigma black gay men face daily—even in the medical ... “There is so much homophobia in the black community that men who have sex with men ... 33, meanwhile, embodies another AIDS-ravaged group: heterosexual black women. Kasege was diagnosed in 1997 during ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/brothers_and_sisters_2081_13071.shtml
October 1999 Black Is...Black Ain't by Donald Suggs Cornelius Baker may be the most effective black AIDS advocate on Capitol Hill. But has he ... Capitol Hill. But as the group’s first black director, and one of the few black people to head any mainstream AIDS organization, ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/219_12030.shtml
... only a handful of top HIV docs are black. Now these MDs are uniting to stand up ... doctors and an expert on the disease in black people. I was more relaxed when I saw he was black, says Lang. When Rawlings asked how she knew ... food diet. Lang is among the few lucky black HIVers with a top doc who happens to be black. According to the Centers for Disease Control ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/159_429.shtml
... Tomika L. Anderson Amid the media frenzy over black men who have secret sex with other men ... s Collective, a Washington, DC, AIDS agency for black women. But these days, this sister of Caribbean ... the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. One black AIDS-services worker calls the impact on his ... Times Magazine published its exposé of “straight” black men living on the down low, or “the DL,” black America is witnessing a DL furor, with ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/158_399.shtml
... out on the toughest streets of Atlanta's black community. As the hours ticked by, marked by ... president of the New York City-based National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS. "Our issues were far ... to a second meeting about AIDS in the black community. Huddled in the hotel lounge, seven of ... United States to publicly declare AIDS in the black community a federal state of emergency. To say ... New York Times first took note of the black epidemic in 1985, and the first African ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/210_1451.shtml
September 1, 2009 -
Kellee Terrell -
... halt the spread of the virus in the black community have strong viewpoints about the matter. But because black women primarily get HIV through high-risk heterosexual ... What s Going On? It makes sense that black women should be the driving force behind the ... numbers: AIDS is the No. 1 killer of black women ages 24 to 35 and black women are 23 times more likely to ...
http://www.realhealthmag.com/articles/women_men_hiv_2352_17194.shtml
... the community is clamoring with theories about why blacks are hit harder by AIDS-and what to ... after President Clinton declared AIDS a crisis in black America -- a hard-won concession by the Congressional Black Caucus and a handful of determined African-American ... exactly AIDS shows such a strange affinity for blacks, have been blowing across America for more than ... room table at his home in Cleveland's black, solidly middle-class Mount Pleasant neighborhood, Graves ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/208_7602.shtml
February 6, 2007 Positive Voices: A National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day Message From NAPWA Collected ... Association of People with AIDS (NAPWA) on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day 2007: Frank J. Oldham ... Executive Director I believe it essential, on National Black AIDS Awareness Day, for us to tell our ... of gay friends die. My gay family was black, white, Asian, and Latino. They died often covered ... gay men, but the reality was that many black men had AIDS and were dying; it ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/401_11230.shtml
March 14, 2007 Black HIV/AIDS Rates Disproportionately High (AIDSmeds.com) by ... According to data collected from 2001 to 2004, black adults and adolescents accounted for 51% of new ... diagnosed between 2001 and 2005, more occurred among blacks (51%) than among all other racial/ethnic populations ... of 25 and 44; in this age group, blacks accounted for 48% of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses ... reduce the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on blacks in the United States. In the report, ...
http://www.poz.com/articles/761_11484.shtml
March 14, 2007 -
Tim Horn -
March 14, 2007 Black HIV/AIDS Rates Disproportionately High (AIDSmeds.com) by ... According to data collected from 2001 to 2004, black adults and adolescents accounted for 51% of new ... diagnosed between 2001 and 2005, more occurred among blacks (51%) than among all other racial/ethnic populations ... of 25 and 44; in this age group, blacks accounted for 48% of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses ... reduce the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on blacks in the United States. In the report, ...
http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/1667_11484.shtml
