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Urgent Action Needed To Address HIV/AIDS Among U.S. Minority Communities as
Cases 'Skyrocket,' Expert Says
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"US Urgently Needs AIDS Prevention Program, Expert
Says"
Hartford Courant , (05.05.2008) Daniel P. Jones
AIDS and addiction policy expert Dr. Beny J. Primm was honored at a luncheon
Sunday in Hartford by Links Inc., an organization of professional women of
color. The event was held to increase awareness of the HIV epidemic among
African Americans and to raise money for local and international AIDS groups.
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"US Urgently Needs AIDS Prevention Program,
Expert Says"
Hartford Courant , (05.05.2008)
Daniel P. Jones
AIDS and addiction policy expert Dr. Beny J.
Primm was honored at a luncheon Sunday in
Hartford by Links Inc., an organization of
professional women of color. The event was held
to increase awareness of the HIV epidemic among
African Americans and to raise money for local
and international AIDS groups.
Primm, the executive director of Brooklyn’s
Addiction Research and Treatment Corp., served
on President George H.W. Bush’s commission on
HIV. More must be done to curb the spread of
HIV/AIDS among people of color, he said. “The
numbers… are skyrocketing” among blacks and
Latinos, “and are at emergency numbers in
African-American women,” he said.
“It’s not on the radar screen,” said Primm.
“There are not enough voices being raised,” he
said, calling for enhanced domestic HIV
prevention efforts.
In some US cities, the numbers of HIV/AIDS cases
are reaching those found in the developing
world, said Primm. One in every 16 people ages
18-44 is HIV-infected in Washington, D.C., he
noted. In New York City, one in seven black men
ages 34-55 in Harlem is infected, as is one in
14 in Manhattan, he said.
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