"The stigma surrounding HIV" is not the problem.
I agree. The problem is the LACK of stigma of high risk activities. Whether that is IV drug use, homosexual activity, or promiscuous hetero sex.
Politically, the black community is an enigma to me. I don't understand how they (as a group, there are certainly exceptions) have stayed so solidly on the DNC plantation for so long. Given that I don't understand it, I cannot predict when it will end. But that said, I see two groups being decisive...black churches and black women. I think there is going to be a serious reaction by black women to the whole 'downlow' thing. And once they start asserting morality...I cannot see how they can stay on the DNC plantation.