Primetime Special Tongiht on Aids in the Black Community
As we all know Aids is running rampant in the black community with a disproportionately high rate compared to other races. Its time for people to wake up and get educated. For your own sake watch primetime tonight at 10p.m.,a synopsis of the show:
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"Out of Control: AIDS in Black America," first initiated by Peter Jennings and later taken over by Moran following Jennings death, covers a number of controversial aspects relating to the crisis from race and sex to politics and religion in an attempt to carve through the apathy that engulfs this issue.
Primetime cites studies from the Universities of Chicago and North Carolina to explain why heterosexual transmission among African Americans is so common: Black men are more than twice as likely as white men to have multiple female partners at the same time, the study showed. Rates of all sexually transmitted diseases are higher among African Americans than other groups, and once those rates start to rise, says Dr. Jim Thomas of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, "It starts a cycle. Because now when a person goes to have sex with someone, the chances that the new partner is already infected are relatively high."
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