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New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community
11-16-2006 · EurekAlert!The country's leading African American lawmakers, civil rights leaders and medical experts today called on the federal government to adopt and implement a new blueprint to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in the African American community. The plan is outlined in a new report, "African Americans, Health Disparities and HIV/AIDS: Recommendations for Confronting the Epidemic in Black America," written by Robert E. Fullilove, EdD, associate dean at the Mailman School of Public Health.
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