IS THIS SOME BULLSHIT OR WHAT...???

JUST FOR THE RECORD, I THINK THIS IS A BUNCH OF BULLSHIT, A BIG PART OF THE ALL OUT OPEN ATTACK ON THE BLACK WOMAN!!! IF HEY CONTINUE TO SCARE THE WORLD AWAY FROM US, NO MORE PRO-CREATION...ABORTION ISN'T WORKING FAST ENOUGH.....

AS REPORTED BY RACIST ASSHOLES:



HIV takes tough toll on Black Americans

In the United States, the dreaded HIV virus is taking a harsh toll on the country's African-American community due to a variety of disparities.


According to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, although Blacks make up only 14 percent of the US population, they account for more than 50 percent of all diagnosed HIV cases in the country, Press TV correspondent said on Monday.

Federal officials also say that African-American men are eight times more likely to contract the AIDS causing virus than their white counterparts, and twice as likely as Hispanic men.

Black women, meanwhile, are 19 times as likely as white women to become HIV positive and four times as likely as Hispanic women.

The reasons for these disparities are complex, the correspondent further explained.

The prevalence of the HIV virus and other sexually-transmitted diseases are higher in the Black community, in general, most likely due in part to a lack of testing, a lack of adequate education.

Many experts agree disparities in access to health care and poverty also contribute to the increased risk of HIV in the African-American community.

“So many black people do not have health insurance. So even if they are infected and they know it, we're going to go far cheaper,” Ron Simmons president of Us Helping Us, a HIV clinic in northwest Washington, told Press TV.

Following the recent revelation, Congressman Danny Davis on Monday, called for the prevention and treatment of sexually-transmitted diseases, and promotion of education, prevention, testing, and treatment among the Black community.

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ginero@facebook
2/8/2011 5:23:02 PMi think this is totally faudulent!! its another bogus story designed to make blacks look like sex crazed maniacs!!
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Anonymous
2/8/2011 5:21:34 PMThe Native Americans have a suprinsingly high HIV rate. mexiocans in El Paso are rising very quick with HIV also. Plus, white women have one of the highest abortion/syphillis rates.
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Major
2/8/2011 5:16:58 PM"most likely due in part to a lack of testing"...this statement contradicts the claims....if blacks aren't being tested than how can you be for sure that 50[[]%] of the population has HIV/AIDS....where they do that at?increase your sample size beyond poor neighborhoods in urban areas to get more accurate statistics!!!!
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ginero
2/8/2011 5:13:51 PMim starting to think this is all about making black ppl look like out of control sex crazed monkeys!!! i dont believe that study one bit ive only known one black person that had aids/hiv my entire life...and just about every person i know is black so how could 50 percent of infected ppl be black?? thats bullsh*t!!
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lilguyfedup
2/8/2011 4:56:20 PMYou are so correct Kim, I couldn't of said it better!!!!
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kim
2/8/2011 4:25:52 PMDont believe it at all.. i heard they took ore findings from blacks then whites amd if you do that of course you will get more stats of blacks.. how the heck can you say that when you havent tested all black people or all white people. Stop putting all this crap on blacks.. na dwith all the black men dating white women.. you fiqure that one out! Black people gettested and use condoms too,, so stop the crockery!!
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J-boogiein reply to kim
2/8/2011 5:16:39 PMforreal kim learn how to spell and use the spacebar cause reading thoes few lines took alot longer then it should have, and even if this is true or false we do need to do better i just had a cousin die of aides and a close friend diagnosed so yea we got big problems in our communnity its not just whitey tryna kill us off we killin our selves by not making the best decsions in life