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Efforts To Assist Many Black AIDS Patients Criticized

Washington, D.C.- The Black AIDS Institute has issued a new 55 page report that is highly critical of the efforts to fight AIDS in the black population of America.

The group maintains that there needs to be more done and more of a direct effort made to deal with the effects of AIDS and the HIV virus in the black community of America.

It is a threat to the entire black population for African Americans not just specific high-risk groups such as is the case among White Americans.

HIV and AIDS are transmitted often to the innocent in the Black Community through heterosexual contact, which for various reasons is not as common in members of the White community.

The authors of the new 55 page report assert that this is a major black epidemic, and it is more urgent here in America but that there are literally more resources being used to fight the disease overseas in Africa than are being given to aid the Black Community here in America.

There are at least 500,000 Black Americans currently infected with HIV or AIDS, which is more than at least 7 of the 15 largest “Target Countries” that receive U.S. Federal Aid to fight the global AIDS disease.