America Needs Focus on AIDS Crisis Among U.S. Blacks

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Published December 1, 2004 at 12:00 AM EST

The latest data on domestic HIV infections shows that African-Americans have a disproportionate share of new cases. Commentator Kathy Y. Wilson says that despite the gravity of the AIDS crisis in Africa, Americans need to pay more attention to the disease at home.

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