Scary Report Reveals: 50 Percent Of New HIV Cases Are Black!

The Washington Post has written a story with some scary statistics about African-Americans and HIV. According to the report, 50% of all new HIV cases are African-American. The research was conducted by the Black AIDS Institute that have noted that this community is the most high-risk community in any developed nation on the globe. This reality is scary and real and I suspect that it has to do with careless sex practices, a desire to be a "pimp" like the hip-hop stars our youth look up to, and of course the "down-low" epidemic. We need to wise-up and become more aware of what we are doing before our whole community is destroyed. The Washington Post has this to say: 

In a 55-page report, the Black AIDS Institute argued that the disease should be viewed as a threat to the entire black population, and not just specific high-risk groups. Unlike in white Americans -- and in the citizens of most industrialized nations -- HIV in American blacks is increasingly transmitted heterosexually through "networks" where men especially have many sex partners at the same time, the report noted. 

The report's authors asserted that the black AIDS epidemic here is being overlooked as the United States is allocating unprecedented resources to fighting the disease in sub-Saharan Africa. 

African Americans with HIV -- at least 500,000 -- are more numerous than in seven of the 15 "target countries" in the Bush administration's global AIDS initiative, which has spent about $19 billion overseas in the past five years.