CBS News highlights the situation with report called 'The South's Silent
Epidemic.' August 21, 2008
*If you missed it, CBS News recently aired a piece called "The South's
Silent Epidemic" that highlighted how HIV and AIDS is spreading at an
alarming rate through out the region:
*At the Metrolina AIDS Project, where seven out of 10 clients are
black, it's all hands on deck to prevent the crisis from getting worse,
reports CBS News correspondent Randall Pinkston. *
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* African-Americans make up 22 percent of North Carolina's population
but are 68 percent of reported AIDS cases. Those numbers are virtually
reversed for whites, who make up 74 percent of the state population, but
account for only 22 percent of reported AIDS cases. *
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* "In the African-American community, there's still not the awareness,
the personal accountability," said Ann White, executive director of the
Metrolina AIDS Project. *
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* North Carolina is not unique. In Virginia, blacks make up 58 percent
of AIDS cases and across the deep South, from South Carolina to Louisiana,
the rate is 68 percent and higher. The statistics beg the question - why the
South? *
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* "Well, I really think the numbers in the South were always there but
we didn't have the resources available before to actually perform the test,"
said White. *
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* For black women ages 25 to 44, HIV/AIDS is now the leading cause of
death. They are quickly becoming the face of the disease. *
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* "I was dumbfounded and really the only one I could look at was my
husband," said Lorraine Mitchell, an AIDS patient who says her husband knew
he had AIDS even before they were married.*
Read the rest of this report
here<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/08/16/eveningnews/main4355694.shtml>
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