Getting Real: Black Women Taking charge in the Fight Against AIDS

January 12, 2005

The State of AIDS Among Black Women

Here’s the vastly underreported good news about HIV and AIDS among African American women: In June 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a six percent drop in infection rates among Black women between the years 2000 and 2003. Later, in November, the CDC reported a five percent drop in infection rates among African Americans overall. We are making progress; prevention is working.