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more har hly to put an end to
the n arly 1 � mont of Blac
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ASH GTO (HFS) - A
clo look at the victim of
AIDS reveals a disproportionate
number of Blac struck by the
de dly di , while more t
half of the nation children
with AIDS are B c .
Citing recent dat from the
Center for Disea Control,
Dr. ayne Greaves, chief of
the division of infectious
di e es at How rd University
Ho pita! in ashington D.C.
note th t h h found a lot
more s among BI. ks than
w pr lou ly th ught.
tio y Bl p
25 percent of all vi tim of
Acquired Immune D ficiency
Syndrome - more than double
the 12 percent Blac population
in the nation. And om 56
percent of the n tion s chil
dren hit by AIDS re BI. ,
Greaves ernph sizes in an inter
view.
Since the AIDS virus wa
a
ys ery
Turn to B c Pag
ICHIGA and Oh 0 farm worke,. announc d t ey ar urging 8 con
tlnu d boycott of C mp II Soup Company product . Henry Nichola ,
pr Id nt of th National Un on of Hospital and H Ith Care Employ
AFL-CIO, addr the FLOC cony ntlon In Toledo this summ r wh r
some 203 farm worker delegat from Ichlgan and Ohio voted
un nlmou Iy to pur u. affiliation with th United Farm Wor r of
Am rica, AFL-CIO. FLOC d legat exp,.. d th Ir solidarity ith
rk ra In South Afrlc , and voted upport of boycott gain t Coor
C lifornla gr pes and Am rica's large t oup comp ny,
II a.
fir t report d in- thi country
in 19 1 more than 13400
meri ans have been ffli ted
by the di e whi h d troy
the body' immune y tern and
i ultim tely fatal. BI c
account for more than 3 300
of tho victim y Gre v ,
formerly ith the CDC in
Atlanta, indi atin that half
o all Ameri n contra ting th
di h v died.
Of th
victims accounting for
52 percent - more than double
the 22 percent 81 c popula
tion in aryland he stre s.
. e the di a itself, my-
stery shrouds the re ons why
there i a high AIDS incidence
among Black .
"There's till belief (in the
Black community) th t AIDS
is a white man's <lise "say
Greave who i also an
tant profe r of medicine at
Howard. 'AIDS is color blind. '
According to Grave about
85 percent of th nation'
hite the di a are g y and
8 percent are intravenous dru
abuser. Amon Blac AIDS
victim 49 per ent are gay and
38 percent are IV drug bu r.
He believes th t more atten
tion needs to be given to dru
abu ers.
Gre ve believe publi edu
cation is the ey to AIDS pre
vention and to overcoming the
fears uncertaintie and misin
form tin about AIDS. People
need to no that IDS i
de dly nd pre din .
'You're ttin your elf up
for early death Gull tte tells
her dru p tient informin
them that they re in an IDS
high-ri group.