AIDS Awareness & Statistics      
Identifying the Problem to Offer Real Solutions

Starting with the community

Click Here for Anonymous AIDS/HIV testing sites in Duval County

FACT SHEET:
*HIV/AIDS among African Americans

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Local AIDS Prevention
|(Jacksonville - last updated 07/01/05)

Startling Statistics

A case study of Duval County and the state of Florida

The Rise of AIDS in Africa: 
A Myth or Reality


 

It is undeniable that AIDS is wrecking havoc in the Black community.  It exist in the home, in the church, in our schools, and it is often A FAMILY MEMBER that is most effected. This modern day plague has rendered us so off-balance that it is at the core of disintegrating relationships and destroying the family structure.

Where will the future of this vice leave US? How will we deal with it?  Who will take charge?  Is there a solution?

At Blacksonville, our focus is to create a Community AIDS Forum along with Health Focus Groups that will answer some, if not all, of the above questions. We sincerely need your input to develop valid conclusions and to implement a Prevention Plan of Awareness & Action. 

Blacks make up about 1/4th of of Duval County's population, but account for 78% of new HIV cases, according to the Fla. Times Union newspaper  3/17/01)

Duval County Health Dept. is teaming up with nightclubs, colleges, churches and social service agencies to set up testing rooms at various locations or to park a mobile clinic.  For a list of other free aids testing sites
Click Here . 

• More than 78% of ALL HIV CASES in Duval are of African descent compared to 60% of those in Florida.
• 58% of area AIDS cases are Black, compared to 46% of those in Florida.
• Males make up a frightening 83% of all AIDS cases in the U.S., 78% in Florida. Other suspect facts among Black Men... among HIV positive gay men, blacks make up 50% as of 1999.
• In case rate per 100,000 pop., Florida is second behind New York.
• 1 in 50 African-Americans in Florida has AIDS

(Fla. Department of Health - March 00')

note: All statistics must be examined carefully and further researched to assure the degree of accuracy.

We cannot face this dilemma passively.  Our future and that of generations to come depend on our activeness. We will continue to bring only RAW FACTS to our visitors.  The sooner we identify the root of the problem, the longer we live.
"Sometimes you can kill people simply by withholding vital information!"    
Break The Silence!!!!!!!!!!!

NEW SURVEY
(Nov. 31st, 2000)
by the Center for Disease Control:
40% of 5000 participants surveyed ill-informed about AIDS

DON'T BE A STATISTIC

www.blackaids.org

1-800-458-5231  (CDC)
(904)-798-2792  (Dept. of Health/AIDS)
1-(800)-FLA-AIDS
www.WeMakeTheChange.com  
 

The Combined Health Information

NEW RELEASE-Herpes 8

http://www.thebody.com/cdc/afram.html

National Minority AIDS Council

HIV Test & AIDS Test Kits offers affordable HIV home test & AIDS test kits, early pregnancy, ovulation predictor, and
drug tests for hair -- marijuana.

SUGGESTED READING

AIDS:  The End of Civilization by  William C. Douglass, M.D.

AIDS:  Racist Myths, Hard Facts by David Dickson

AIDSMYTH.COM***

http://blackstar-media.com/7mac/AIDS/***

http://www.aegis.com***