Word: hiv
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...part because of a traditional homophobic tendency in our culture, in part because of ignorant stereotypes about HIV and AIDS, our people, our leaders, have long been in denial about AIDS in the black community," Gates said...
...wowed by the presence of [black leaders] who participated today, but I am troubled by those who are not here," said Phill Wilson, the HIV-positive founder of the Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum...
...AIDS cases in 1995, hardly a handful. Heterosexual intercourse (what McFadden would call 'normal' sexual behavior) accounted for 11 percent of new cases, with a growth rate (in 1994) almost three times that of homosexual contact. And heterosexual women are accounting for ever larger numbers of those afflicted with HIV...
...declined tremendously since the mid-1980s, due probably to intensive education programs targeted at the highest-risk groups; sadly, not everyone learned from this, as McFadden's piece and the elevated rates among heterosexuals indicate. The rest of the world has not been so lucky; new subtypes of HIV-1 in are erupting in Zimbabwe, Botswana and Thailand, spreading primarily among heterosexuals according to Monty Montano at the School of Public Health...
...time that we realize that AIDS is not a homosexual problem, not a United States problem, not a developing countries problem, not an IV drug users' problem and not a "people with bad morals" problem. It is a problem. A human problem. We are all living with HIV. Scott A. Rifkin...