AIDS in the African-American Community
By AAN Staff
october 24, 2002 10:19 am
Disproportionately infected, blacks
confront the reality that AIDS is no longer
a white, gay disease. Seattle
Weekly's Nina Shapiro talks to
African-Americans with the virus and
looks at the latest developments in
the deadly plague. Dr. Helene Gayle,
former head of CDC's AIDS program, tells Shapiro the epidemic was simply going where epidemics usually go: into
"communities of the disenfranchised" -- those with poor access to health care,
high rates of drug use, and other social burdens that fuel disease.