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February 7
National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
We encourage you to use all the materials downloadable from the HIV/AIDS Awareness Day site. There are no copyright restrictions.
African Americans and HIV/AIDS HIV is hitting African Americans hard. Even though African Americans represent only 13 percent of the U.S. population, they accounted for 49 percent of all new cases of HIV/AIDS in 2005. Download the PDF (192 KB) | |
CDC Fact Sheet on HIV/AIDS among African Americans, June 2007 In the United States, the HIV/AIDS epidemic is a health crisis for African Americans. At all stages of HIV/AIDS - from infection with HIV to death with AIDS - African Americans are disproportionately affected compared with members of other races and ethnicities. Download the PDF (765 KB) |
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