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Aids Among African Americans

Natasha

B/ST 100

Prof. Uche Ugwueze

Essay #4

April 14, 2008

Aids among African Americans

AIDS is a disease that has altered a number of societal practices and patterns in a relatively short time. The disease has been known widely for no more than about 20 years, and in that time it has had a profound effect on human sexual behavior in Western society. Not every community or group is affected by AIDS in the same way, which is also one reason the scientific, medical, and governmental response was so slow in developing. AIDS has had its greatest effect in what are considered by many to be marginal communities rather than the mainstream, marginal in the sense of minority and stigmatized, like the homosexual community, the population that uses illegal intravenous drugs, and most importantly the men and women of the African American Communities. Arguably, it was only with clear evidence that the disease was spreading into the non-drug-using heterosexual......


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