Doctors Advice: Pay More Attention to Personal Health
"What’s scary is those aren’t the only major medical issues facing African Americans. HIV/AIDS continues to be a scourge to the community, according to the CDC. Blacks, only 14 percent of the American population, represented 44 percent of new HIV infections nationally in 2009. In that year, the CDC claims the rate of new infections among Black men was six and a half times higher than among White men and two and half times higher than that of Latino men. It’s a problem that Boulware says needs to be addressed more.
'We need a lot more education and awareness,” she said. “We gave it a lot of attention in the early 90’s when AIDS became an epidemic. Now the urgency has kind of fallen off and we need more targeted efforts.'"
'We need a lot more education and awareness,” she said. “We gave it a lot of attention in the early 90’s when AIDS became an epidemic. Now the urgency has kind of fallen off and we need more targeted efforts.'"
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