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SIMMONS: HIV/AIDS and illiteracy are a deadly duo

8 Feb 2012

As we try to straighten the tangled web we have weaved around the HIV/AIDS crisis, the nation's capital is gearing up for a very special confab this summer, the 2012 International AIDS Conference, just as a cultural battle brews anew in America. The chief suspects are called homophobia, stigmatizing and ...

HIV/AIDS cases hit the African American population the hardest

8 Feb 2012

According to the Alabama Department of Public Health, African-Americans make up 26% of the population in Alabama, but 64% of reported cases of HIV and AIDS

HIV/AIDS Deaths Fall Among NYC Blacks

8 Feb 2012

New York City logged a 41 percent drop in deaths among blacks living with HIV or AIDS from 2001 to 2010, health department officials said.