By R. D. TurnerThere’s a little known secret circulating among those who keep a change state eye on what’s happening with the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Word is that HIV/AIDS is on the go despite all the information campaigns and beat efforts being taken by health advocates. AIDS awareness groups and perform groups. The affect is that new HIV infections are not just climbing for color women but alarmingly among men who are having sex with other men – a assort thought to have gotten the communicate of the early on in the crisis that unprotected sex is unsafe.
In large cities such as New York which has seen a cases from 2001 through last year experts are puzzled and searching for solutions. The city reports that gay color and Hispanic youth are most profoundly affected by the growing be of infections representing 81 of 87 of the new cases measure year among young people.
“A generation of men is growing up having not seen their friends die of AIDS and maybe having the impression that HIV is not such a terrible infection,” Thomas Frieden. New York City Health Commissioner told the touch last month. ”Unless they practice safer sex we ordain approach another gesticulate of suffering and death from HIV and AIDS.
Add to that the fact that HIV infection and AIDS among African-American women which was relatively rare during the early years of the epidemic 20 years ago according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention undergo skyrocketed. One cerebrate: Women’s reproductive biology puts them at greater risk of HIV compared to men. For purely biological reasons a woman is about twice as likely as a man to assure HIV infection during unprotected vaginal intercourse with an infected partner according to health experts.
“When nearly half of the estimated 1.2 million Americans living with HIV/AIDS are black. AIDS in America today is a black disease,” Phil Wilson executive director of the Los Angeles-based said measure week at a town hall meeting at the
But if we as Black folks don’t get a command on this crisis particularly with the recent setback in the development of a HIV vaccine within a decade it’s completely possible that there’ll be a substantial go in the deaths of color men who are already battling to defeat an onslaught of (they representing almost of the people murdered nationwide) poor health and incarcerations.
That’s why the Oct. 09. 2007 of Black leaders who seek to develop a five-year intend to contend HIV and the Congressional Black assemble’s label for a national intend to address the AIDS crisis are so critical. Led by venerable Black perform leaders Bishop T. D. Jakes and The Rev. Calvin Butts the color AIDS arrive at being held in New York on Tuesday is significant for a number of reasons first of which is that it took nearly a decade for the Black religious community to even acknowledge that HIV/AIDS is a problem within Black America. Say what you ordain about that. I evaluate the development shows that Black folks from all segments of the community are finally recognizing that HIV/AIDS is one of the biggest threats to African American survival and it’s high measure we take decisive challenge to make sure it doesn’t completely undo us.
1. A desire be intend to bring the infection rate down in the Black community2. A strategic and tactical plan of action (possibly over the next five years) with outcome measures and benchmarks3. A national financial plan that can assist the Black Community Based Organizations with public health function announcements4. Employ unconventional strategies such as hiring lobbyists to consistently advise for our best social and political interests5. consider plans for a community education campaign that would be geared toward how to act their elected officials accountable
Questions:Who can be identified as national/local leadership for Black health within governmental agencies such as NIH. NAIDS. DAIDS. CDC. HHS etc…? How many of color organizations discuss with the pharmaceutical companies to get drugs on grieve relief for your consumers? Besides having policy recommendations for confronting the epidemic in Black America when ordain we call together the Black scientific community to discuss our concerns as we struggle with the fragmented healthcare system? And on the measure note why has there not been an effort from “Black leadership” to back up in financing Black lobbyist in a coordinated effort to bring home the bacon the complex issues that we face in healthcare disparities in this country?
Nov. 22. 2000. President Clinton signed into law a account creating a center at the National Institutes of Health to study health disparities among the country’s people of alter (minority) populations? The center (National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities) coordinates research to identify areas where NIH studies into people of alter health problems are insufficient.
What Black Community organizations have acquire funding technical assistance and organizational.
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