Someone PLEASE tell me how we get people who are just going to have sex without benefit of marriage or outside of marriage, to do what is necessary to "protect" themselves?!?!?!
ESPECIALLY BLACK PEOPLE as is, YET AGAIN, demonstrated with the HIV/AIDS rate, this time in Washington, D.C.
The first 3 paragraphs:
At least 3 percent of District residents have HIV or AIDS, a total that
far surpasses the 1 percent threshold that constitutes a "generalized
and severe" epidemic, according to a report scheduled to be released by
health officials tomorrow.
That translates into 2,984 residents per every 100,000 over the age of 12 -- or 15,120 -- according to the 2008 epidemiology report by the District's HIV/AIDS office.
"Our rates are higher than West Africa," said Shannon L. Hader,
director of the District's HIV/AIDS Administration, who once led the
Federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's work in Zimbabwe.
"They're on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya."
OK, so that's the "hyperbole" to get people's attention to keep reading. So, now comes the "pc" component:
The District's report found a 22 percent increase in HIV and AIDS cases
from the 12,428 reported at the end of 2006, touching every race and
sex across population and neighborhoods, with an epidemic level in all
but one of the eight wards.
But, then a little further down, comes the REAL DEAL:
More than 4 percent of blacks in the city are known to have HIV, along
with almost 2 percent of Latinos and 1.4 percent of whites. More than
three-quarters -- 76 percent -- of the HIV infected are black, 70
percent are men and 70 percent are age 40 and older.
Heterosexual sex was the principal mode of transmission for blacks with the disease, 33 percent. Men having sex with men was the chief mode of transmission for white residents, 78 percent; and Latinos, 49 percent. Black women represent more than a quarter of HIV cases in the District, and most, about 58 percent, were infected through heterosexual sex. About a quarter of black women were infected through drug use.
Heterosexual sex was the principal mode of transmission for blacks with the disease, 33 percent. Men having sex with men was the chief mode of transmission for white residents, 78 percent; and Latinos, 49 percent. Black women represent more than a quarter of HIV cases in the District, and most, about 58 percent, were infected through heterosexual sex. About a quarter of black women were infected through drug use.
People know what's out there. The question is, WHY continue doing what will kill you?
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