Did you know that if black Americans, all 13% of us, were a separate country, that our country would rank 16th in the world in HIV/AIDS infections? African Americans represent 49% of all new infections worldwide, according to the Center for Disease Control.
Did you know that black women in America between the ages of 25 and 49, are the group at highest risk for contracting AIDS?
Did you know that black women are infected primarily through their heterosexual partners...men who sleep with other men?
Today is World AIDs Day....the world has 33 million cases of infection, more than 70% of it happening in sub Saharan Africa.
Black AIDS Day is February 7th.....Educate yourself...for your own protection...I say this as someone who has lost too many friends and a couple of relatives to this vicious virus..
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