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Too many Tigers, not enough Trojans

Dr. Janet Taylor
OPINION - What's notable is reportedly not only did Woods not wear a condom, but his partner's didn't insist upon it...
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How black women can combat genital herpes crisis

Dr. Janet Taylor
OPINION - According the Center for Disease Control nearly half of all African-American women are infected with the HSV-2 virus...
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New report says nearly half of all black women have Genital Herpes

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The Center For Disease Control has released alarming new test results that claim 48% of Black women between ages 14 and 49 have herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2)...
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2) ESCALATING HIV/AIDS RATE – By 2002, it was increasingly clear that HIV/AIDS was a dominant health threat to African Americans, especially to growing numbers of black women. Throughout the 2000s, the Center for Disease Control (CDC) issued statistics revealing HIV infection rates trending highest among African Americans. According to the Minority Nurse Newsletter (Fall 2003), African Americans accounted for half of all new reported HIV infections in 2001. Black women specifically accounted for almost 64 percent of all new infections among women in 2001. In 2004, according to the CDC, HIV infection was the leading cause of death for black women, ages 25-34.High contraction rates through heterosexual interaction among African American women pointed to bisexuality among African American men, helping fuel the down-low hysteria of seemingly “straight” African American men sleeping with both men and women. J.L. King’s 2004 memoir On the Down Low addressed this issue, even earning the author an appearance on The Oprah Winfrey Show. Organizations such as the L.A.-based Black AIDS Institute and The Balm in Gilead, which black churches, as well as books like Not in My Family, featuring HIV/AIDS-related essays from a cross-section of black America, and African American radio leaders like Radio One continue to raise awareness about the devastation of HIV/AIDS in the African American community.

Action – not apathy – is needed from black women on HIV

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From Essence Magazine - Every Black female can both protect herself from HIV and help to create an environment where other Black people can safeguard themselves...
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TheGrio's 100: Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, sex educator for life

Ethyln Harris
TheGrio's 100 - I think in general, in the black community, we don't necessarily talk about sex...
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Hepatitis B and C often ignored as health threat to blacks

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WASHINGTON (AP) - They're the overlooked viruses: Hepatitis B and C together infect three to five times more Americans than the AIDS virus does, and most don't know it...
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Focus on teenage pregnancy distracts from dangerous STIs

Kat Noel
OPINION - The idea that unexpected pregnancy is the worst conceivable result of unprotected sex sends youth the message that they've managed to play with fire unscathed.
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