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Monday, July 24, 2006
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Louisiana Weekly - Your Community. Your Newspaper.: "Blacks are Urged to Mobilize against HIV/AIDS
By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief
July 24, 2006
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - With African-Americans representing more than half of all people newly infected with HIV in the United States, AIDS has become a 'Black disease' that deserves unprecedented community mobilization to halt the rapid spread of the deadly virus, experts told delegates attending the NAACP's annual convention here.
At a panel discussion over the weekend on HIV/AIDS, Phil Wilson, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute, stated: 'Today, AIDS in America is a Black disease. The tragedy is it didn't have to be that way, but it is.' "
By George E. Curry, NNPA Editor-in-Chief
July 24, 2006
WASHINGTON (NNPA) - With African-Americans representing more than half of all people newly infected with HIV in the United States, AIDS has become a 'Black disease' that deserves unprecedented community mobilization to halt the rapid spread of the deadly virus, experts told delegates attending the NAACP's annual convention here.
At a panel discussion over the weekend on HIV/AIDS, Phil Wilson, executive director of the Los Angeles-based Black AIDS Institute, stated: 'Today, AIDS in America is a Black disease. The tragedy is it didn't have to be that way, but it is.' "
:: posted by R. W. Graf, 4:54 PM
