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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.
