Monday, March 16, 2009

HIV/AIDS rate in D.C. up to 3%!


Big news. A Washington D.C. health report is about to be released showing that the HIV/AIDS rate in the District has hit 3%. That’s comparable to 3rd-world countries that we’re giving billions of dollars of aid to. What is going wrong in D.C.? This is not a new problem that suddenly exploded on to the scene; officials have known for some time of the growing number of infections occurring in the D.C. area. It’s happening to men who have sex with men, heterosexuals, people who use injected drugs-everybody! It is disproportionately prevalent amongst black men and the poor of D.C. This is a massive problem. What do you think the D.C. government did wrong, and how might they fix it? How can Mayor Fenty step it up?

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