Monday, September 27, 2010

AIDS/HIV Infection Rate of Nation's Capital Is Highest In America

There has been some recent headlines in the news about the AIDS/HIV epidemic in the United States.  Nearly 20% of Gay Men in America are HIV-Positive.  Half of them do not even know it, and are continuing to spread the disease unknowingly.  Additionally, AIDS/HIV is the leading cause of death for African American women between the ages of 25 to 34.

These numbers are horrifying, but I was shocked to learn the the city with the highest rate of infection in the United States is the nation's capital, Washington D.C.  A full 3% of the population are infected and the number could be as high as 5% including people who are unaware they are infected.  This rate of infection of the general population is higher than in cities like Port-au-prince, Haiti or Dakar, Senegal.

Here is a clip from the Alyona Show on RT.  She is interviewing Sheila Johnson who is the producer of a new documentary about the AIDS/HIV epidemic in DC, "The Other City."


There is a stigma attached to AIDS/HIV that "if you have it, you deserve it", which is pretty heartless.  How high does that percentage need to go before Congress acts to reverse the trend?  Just telling people to not have sex and to not do drugs has got us this far... it's time to act.

This also reminds me of a funny (or sad) episode of South Park, in which the show correctly identified the public's disinterest in helping AIDS patients anymore.  Cartman needed on a plane at the last minute and had to lie and say he had cancer to get sympathy, because nobody cared when he told them he had AIDS.  He contracted it through a contaminated blood transfusion and was later cured at the end of the episode.

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