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Topic: African-Americans face uphill HIV fight |
African-Americans face uphill HIV fight
The Record [Hackensack, NJ], by Mary Jo Layton
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Posted By:Ribicon, 2/26/2013 12:52:24 PM
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| A 20-year-old diagnosed with HIV or AIDS today can expect to live 50 years, due to groundbreaking advances in treatment since the discovery of the virus 30 years ago. Despite the progress, troubling trends remain: 47,500 new cases of HIV infection are diagnosed each year in the U.S. And in the African-American community, the statistics are even more grim: The virus continues to strike a disproportionate number of blacks, and their death rates are higher than other ethnic groups. In New Jersey, African-Americans make up 14 percent of the population but constitute 53 percent of the people
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New infections run about triple the annual "gun" deaths in the US, and thanks to the Down Low and prison cultures, black women are 20 times more likely than white women to be infected.
So, we conclude that AIDS is racist and Emperor Zero does not care about his own kind (closeted or black, take your pick).
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
mythman, 2/26/2013 1:04:04 PM (No. 9197260)
Behaviors have consequences.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
hipkitty1, 2/26/2013 1:08:28 PM (No. 9197269)
The virus doesn´t "strike" a person, like a bolt of lightning might strike. A person CONTRACTS the virus, through an action. They make it sound like a person is unlucky rather than doing something that has a price.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 2/26/2013 1:15:34 PM (No. 9197288)
Somehow I knew blacks would be hit the hardest.
I swear to God if there was a story about a shortage of blond hair for wigs, the media would report that blacks would be hit the hardest.
Do these dummies have any idea what this constant portrayal of blacks as victims has done to the black community? Do they care?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
wws, 2/26/2013 1:18:32 PM (No. 9197297)
End of the World, Coming Soon!
Minorities, Women hardest hit.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
oh-heck, 2/26/2013 1:21:03 PM (No. 9197302)
You´re right #2, the 4 large vectors in the world have been transfusions of infected blood, sharing needles, infected men having sex with young virgin girls, and infected men engaging in anal sex. So why is there a large disparity between black and white women? Are there any courageous black leaders out there who would like to take this on? I understand that by asking the question I will be defined as a racist and sexist.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
mitzi, 2/26/2013 1:27:12 PM (No. 9197320)
A 20-year-old diagnosed with HIV or AIDS today can expect to live 50 years, due to groundbreaking advances in treatment since the discovery of the virus 30 years ago.
That progress is partially responsible for the increase in new cases.
In those 50 remaining years, he/she can continue infecting others, thousands of others.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Bevan, 2/26/2013 1:36:56 PM (No. 9197354)
AIDs is a behavioral disease. Do we see the same "compassion" for smokers with cancer?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
mickturn, 2/26/2013 1:39:28 PM (No. 9197364)
Maybe this explains the missing fathers...they ran off with other fathers to do their thingie.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Truth Czar, 2/26/2013 1:53:11 PM (No. 9197398)
It´s OK to say African-Americans have a disproportionately high rate of HIV. Left alone this statement implies victimhood.
But start asking why the rates are so high, if irresponsible behavior is the root cause... Well, that must be racist...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stonepony, 2/26/2013 4:16:33 PM (No. 9197631)
this is the results of lower IQ´s, goes right along with unemployment, crime and the wealth and education gaps.... no surprise here.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
jalo1951, 2/26/2013 4:35:12 PM (No. 9197650)
I am a white heterosexual woman who has only have relations with one man. My husband. So it must be my fault.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
oldsfc, 2/26/2013 5:31:18 PM (No. 9197728)
Darwin was right.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
JHHolliday, 2/26/2013 8:56:40 PM (No. 9198057)
And who gets to pay or all this treatment? I don´t even have to guess.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
harper, 2/26/2013 9:06:41 PM (No. 9198067)
"...African-Americans make up 14 percent of the population but constitute 53 percent of the people..."
Sounds eerily the same as the general crime statistics.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LaVallette, 2/27/2013 2:18:32 AM (No. 9198282)
The most avoidable disease but for poltical correctness.
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