{"id":786,"date":"2008-07-29T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-29T17:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=786"},"modified":"2008-07-29T10:42:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-29T17:42:08","slug":"in-america-a-black-disease","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/in-america-a-black-disease\/","title":{"rendered":"In America, a Black Disease"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/HEALTH\/conditions\/07\/29\/black.aids.report\/index.html\">Black U.S. AIDS rates rival some African nations<\/a><\/p>\n<table width=75% align=center bgcolor=pink border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=5>\n<tr>\n<td>The AIDS epidemic among African-Americans in some parts of the United States is as severe as in parts of Africa, according to a report out Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;AIDS in America today is a black disease,&#8221; says Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the institute and himself HIV-positive for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>Although black people represent only about one in eight Americans, one in every two people living with HIV in the United States is black, the report notes.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>AIDS remains the leading cause of death among black women between ages 25 and 34. It&#8217;s the second-leading cause of death in black men 35-44.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Five percent of the entire population (in DC) is infected&#8230; that&#8217;s comparable to countries like Uganda or South Africa,&#8221; Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told CNN for the recent &#8220;Black in America&#8221; documentary.<\/p>\n<p>According to this report, if black Americans made up their own country, it would rank above Ethiopia (420,000 to 1,300,000) and below Ivory Coast (750,000) in HIV population.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>This is amazing!<\/p>\n<p>Why has this segment of the population become so infected?<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black U.S. AIDS rates rival some African nations The AIDS epidemic among African-Americans in some parts of the United States is as severe as in parts of Africa, according to a report out Tuesday. [&#8230;] &#8220;AIDS in America today is a black disease,&#8221; says Phill Wilson, founder and CEO of the institute and himself HIV-positive &#8230; <a title=\"In America, a Black Disease\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/in-america-a-black-disease\/\" aria-label=\"More on In America, a Black Disease\">Read more<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-cG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}