After reading the "African American's, Health Dispatiries and HIV/AIDS" report from the National Minority AIDS Council, I got a wake up call. You know you hear about African American are dying more from diabetes, heart disease, and HIV/AIDS than any other race on the news, the internet, and magazines. You want to know why and how it can be prevented? Well this report, only 25 pages long, gives you the hard facts and recommendations for prevention. Of course, we can attribute heart disease and diabetes to the diets African American maintain as well as genetics but African Americans cannot, however, blame the HIV/AIDS disease transference as a diet imbalance or genetics. The African American community needs to take responsibility for their actions.
Protect yourself at all times and get tested!
Did you know that African Americans account for 49% (almost 50%) of all HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S.? Latin American accounts for 20% and Whites (non-hispanic) accounts for 28%. There is a huge disparity that we as African Americans cannot ignore anymore! African Americans are not susceptible to the HIV/AIDS disease. If you don't know your status, find out today and use protection everytime.
One of the greatest impact on the African Community is homosexual behaviors with men in prison and the non-use of condoms as they are not available in most prisons in this country. African Americans account for 41% of the total prison population (data from 2005 and still rising). This study indicates that U.S. prisons only started testing for HIV/AIDS 10 or 11 years ago. You have men who did not know their status serving their prison sentence for 10 to 30 years not knowning their status and infecting other men as condoms, sex, and drug use are prohihited. Which person do you know is able to go without sex for 6 months? I don't know of any. Is the government being realistic about not issuing condoms in the prisons? Am I missing something here!
These men in prison engage in unprotected sex with other men. Some men were never homosexuals, however, becuase of the environment, they had to adapt to survive. When these men are let out into society, the next rate of infections starts with the African American female community. And I will stop right there. This is called the trickle down effect and has now cause this epidemic in the African American community.
Download the report and other publications at: http://www.nmac.org/index/nmac-pubs
and please pass the link on so we all get educated on this epidemic and curb it before it gets worst. It's free!
Protect yourself at all times and get tested!
Did you know that African Americans account for 49% (almost 50%) of all HIV/AIDS cases in the U.S.? Latin American accounts for 20% and Whites (non-hispanic) accounts for 28%. There is a huge disparity that we as African Americans cannot ignore anymore! African Americans are not susceptible to the HIV/AIDS disease. If you don't know your status, find out today and use protection everytime.
One of the greatest impact on the African Community is homosexual behaviors with men in prison and the non-use of condoms as they are not available in most prisons in this country. African Americans account for 41% of the total prison population (data from 2005 and still rising). This study indicates that U.S. prisons only started testing for HIV/AIDS 10 or 11 years ago. You have men who did not know their status serving their prison sentence for 10 to 30 years not knowning their status and infecting other men as condoms, sex, and drug use are prohihited. Which person do you know is able to go without sex for 6 months? I don't know of any. Is the government being realistic about not issuing condoms in the prisons? Am I missing something here!
These men in prison engage in unprotected sex with other men. Some men were never homosexuals, however, becuase of the environment, they had to adapt to survive. When these men are let out into society, the next rate of infections starts with the African American female community. And I will stop right there. This is called the trickle down effect and has now cause this epidemic in the African American community.
Download the report and other publications at: http://www.nmac.org/index/nmac-pubs
and please pass the link on so we all get educated on this epidemic and curb it before it gets worst. It's free!
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