Black Community Paying the Price for HIV/AIDS

(The Toledo Journal) — With World AIDS Day having passed, black advocates say the deadly disease continues to inflict a staggering human and financial toll on the African American community.  The AIDS epidemic has claimed the lives of more than 230,000 African Americans during the past three decades. And although black Americans constitute just 12 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 46 percent of the 1.1 million Americans currently living with HIV.  To some observers, the fact that America hasn’t yet won the battle against AIDS boils down to pure economics.  ”If we had large numbers of millionaires, billionaires and those impacting the economy dying of AIDS, I guarantee you a cure would be found virtually overnight,” says LaMont Evans, CEO of Healthy Black Communities Inc. in Atlanta.

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