The Black church leads national HIV/AIDS testing campaign From: Michigan Citizen | Date: July 8, 2000| Author: Akwamu, Kwasi | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Michigan Citizen

07-08-2000

The Black church leads national HIV/AIDS testing campaign

If Black adults think it is young brothers that are killing off the Black
community, they'd better think again. For Black men and women between the
ages of 25 and 44, AIDS is the leading cause of death, ranking higher than
heart disease, cancer, and homicide.

While Blacks only accounted for 13 percent of the U.S. population in 1998,
we represented 45 p...

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