HIV & African Americans: Overview
- Hope Amidst the Crisis (January 30, 2009)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans: Presentation From the 2008 HIV Prevention Leadership Summit (September 9, 2008)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- African-American Resource Center: HIV Frontlines -- U.S. Edition: African Americans Tell Their Stories About HIV in a New Book (May 14, 2008)
From TheBody.com
- HHS Awards $70.6 Million for HIV/AIDS Care for At-Risk Communities (August 13, 2007)
Awards to help disproportionately affected minority and women populations.
From U.S. Health Resources and Services Administration
- Triple Stigma: Race, HIV and Drug Use (PDF) (June 21, 2007)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Graduates of "HIV U" Prepare to Fight HIV in African-American Communities (June 18, 2007)
From Black AIDS Institute
- A Heightened National Response to the HIV/AIDS Crisis Among African Americans (PDF) (June 2007)
From U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Disease Denial Devastating for African Americans (June 5, 2006)
Blacks are most vulnerable: group sustains more than half of new U.S. infections, deaths, but effort to inform intensifies.
In San Francisco Chronicle
- HIV Denial, Stigma Continue to Threaten U.S. Black Community, Author Says (May 3, 2006)
In Kaiser Daily HIV/AIDS Report, from Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation
- Sexuality in Men of Color: The Impact of Culture (Winter 2005/2006)
Moctezuma Garcia examines the intersection of race, sexual identity, culture and religion in the U.S. HIV epidemic.
To read PDF, click here.
In ACRIA Update, from AIDS Community Research Initiative of America
- HIV/AIDS Among Minority Women (December 2005)
A summary of key statistics with a plan to mobilize against HIV.
To read PDF, click here.
From U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- A Turning Point: Confronting HIV/AIDS in African-American Communities (November 2005)
This call to action includes statistical reports and a list of specific recommendations on how to stop the spread of HIV among African Americans.
To read PDF, click here.
In A Turning Point: Confronting HIV/AIDS in African American Communities, from National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors
- Reclaiming the Future: The State of AIDS Among Black Youth (September 22, 2005)
As U. Chicago professor Cathy Cohen and colleagues report, HIV has become inextricably linked with the cultural and political inequalities that face many African Americans -- particularly youths.
From Black AIDS Institute
- African-American Community Slow to Wake Up to Rapid Spread of HIV (March 14, 2005)
The growing HIV rate among African Americans (now at about 2%) is beginning to strip away years of denial.
In St. Petersburg Times
- U.S. HIV Cases Soaring Among Black Women (February 7, 2005)
In The Washington Post
- AIDS Goes Gray (February 2004)
HIV has been with us for over two decades. Its survivors will live much longer than that -- which is more than can be said for the safety net keeping them housed and healthy.
In City Limits
- And They Said This Was a Gay, White Male Disease (September/October 2003)
An overview of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the U.S. South.
To read PDF, click here.
In Positively Aware, from Test Positive Aware Network
- HIV Infection in Minority Populations (August 2003)
From U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Black Community Especially Hard Hit by HIV/AIDS (June 26, 2003)
In CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update, from U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Children of the Epidemic (April/May 2002)
The impact of HIV on young gay men of color.
In Positive Living, from AIDS Project Los Angeles
- At Risk: Young, Minority, and Lesbian Women (January/February 2002)
By the Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In Body Positive, from Body Positive
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