National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a day to focus attention on the staggering toll HIV continues to take on the black community. It is also a day of hope – a day on which we recognize the progress we continue to make towards ending this epidemic in our communities.
Today, African-Americans continue to face the most severe rates of HIV infection in the nation. The latest estimates indicate that while blacks make up just 12 percent of the U.S. population, they account for nearly half of new HIV infections and almost half of the more than one million Americans estimated to be living with HIV. The harsh reality is that 1 in 16 black men will be diagnosed with HIV at some point in their lifetime, as will 1 in 30 black women.
Source: BlackPRWire
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