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Black women in metro Atlanta face HIV crisis

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Atlanta is in the midst of a crisis because the rate in which African-American women in the city are being infected with HIV is now being compared to some third world countries...
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Blacks have trouble clearing HPV virus

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CHICAGO (AP) - Provocative new research might help explain why black women are so much more likely than whites to develop and die from cervical cancer...
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National rate of HIV is higher for black women

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In Baltimore, and five other cities in the U.S., African American women are becoming infected with HIV much more than any other race...
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Obama on AIDS: 'We can beat this disease'

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WASHINGTON (AP) - 'We can beat this disease,' Obama declared during a World AIDS Day event in Washington. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton also participated via satellite...
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AIDS Day powerfully personal for Alvin Ailey

Ronda Racha Penrice
theGRIO REPORT - World AIDS Day is powerfully personal for the legendary Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater...
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Magic's HIV reveal at 20: How things have changed

Jay Scott Smith
theGRIO REPORT - In 1991, being HIV positive was a veritable death sentence as the medications were often experimental or too expensive for most people to afford...
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Black teens heed lessons on sex, drug use

Candace Y.A. Montague
OPINION - Dr. Roselyn Aker-Black, psychologist and CEO of Til Death Foundation in Washington, DC, says black youth has always made good choices but the focus seems to fall on the negative stories...
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Can black porn actors prevent HIV outbreaks?

Melanie Eversley
theGRIO REPORT - The latest developments cap years of criticisms by former actors and outsiders of the industry over lax condom use...
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New HIV case causes LA porn industry shutdown

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Free Speech Coalition executive director Diane Duke told The Los Angeles Times on Monday that her group became aware of the HIV case Saturday...
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Why the black church must get real on HIV/AIDS

Mashaun D. Simon
theGRIO REPORT - Before HIV and AIDS can be dealt with, something first has to be done about what one religious leader and advocate calls 'CIV.'....
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