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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.  CDC Summary
 

mtvU, Kaiser Family Foundation, POZ Magazine Launch Online Game To Confront HIV/AIDS-Related Stereotypes
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Profiles Founder of Children Affected by AIDS Foundation
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Magic Johnson Calls for More HIV Testing Among Blacks in D.C.
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Summaries

"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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