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Out of Control: The AIDS Epidemic in Black America
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/out_of_control_the_aids_epidemic_in_black_america ^

Posted on 05/09/2012 2:29:05 PM PDT by kcvl

Out of Control was the first national network television documentary to examine how and why AIDS has become overwhelmingly a Black epidemic--not in Africa or the Third World, but right here in the United States.

Blacks make up 13% of the total US population, but over 50% of all new cases of HIV infection. That infection rate is eight times the rate of whites. Among women, the statistics are even more shocking: 70% of all new HIV infections are Black women, and a black woman is 23 times more likely than her white counterpart to be diagnosed with AIDS. AIDS is the leading cause of death for Black women ages 25-49, and has been for the last 11 years.

In interviews with AIDS activists, doctors, public health officials, and Black leaders, Out of Control revealed, for the first time, the political and social reasons AIDS spiraled into a crisis in Black communities across the country.

Among these was a lack of any consistent or ongoing effort to specifically address the Black epidemic by the Reagan, Clinton, and Bush administrations. And perhaps most importantly, the documentary examined a failure of mobilization and leadership in the Black community itself.

examining these controversial and difficult topics, Out of Control included the last original reporting by Peter Jennings, just before his cancer diagnosis. Jennings, who played an important role in conceptualizing the program, interviewed a group of African American HIV-positive men in Atlanta who spoke with remarkable candor about the harsh realities of dealing with AIDS in Black America.

no major African-American leader or organization had taken on AIDS in Black America as a fighting cause. While many American Black leaders and celebrities had very visibly embraced the cause of AIDS in Africa, few devoted similar energy to the epidemic here at home.

(Excerpt) Read more at snagfilms.com ...


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KEYWORDS: aids; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: freedomfiter2

Ewwww TMI


21 posted on 05/09/2012 2:58:41 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Paladin2

The failure of efforts in the 1990s to get federal support for needle exchange programs, which have proven successful in other countries in slowing the spread of AIDS among drug addicts, is also examined. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, remembers the struggle to get the Clinton administration to support such programs in the United States, knowing that without them the epidemic would continue to spread unchecked. “You could see it coming,” says Fauci. “The handwriting was on the wall for a long time.”

“Out of Control” also reports the results of studies from the Universities of Chicago and North Carolina which shed light on a complex reality that helps explain why heterosexual transmission among African Americans is so common. Black men are more than twice as likely as white men to have multiple female partners at the same time, these studies show. Rates of all sexually transmitted diseases are higher among African Americans than other groups, and once those rates start to rise, says Dr. Jim Thomas of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, “It starts a cycle. Because now when a person goes to have sex with someone, the chances that the new partner is already infected are relatively high.”

http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=2346857&page=1


22 posted on 05/09/2012 3:00:54 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: WellyP

I thought lamb skin condoms don’t stop disease. Every study I’ve seen says the opposite of your claim.


23 posted on 05/09/2012 3:02:18 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: kcvl

The Great Society continues to work its magic :(


24 posted on 05/09/2012 3:02:32 PM PDT by NonValueAdded (Chen Guangcheng: Gutsy call, Obama /UltraMegaDrippingSarc)
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To: goseminoles

This is a gross assessment, but true; they use anal sex as a form of birth control and that’s how aids spreads like wild fire.

Same as in Africa.


25 posted on 05/09/2012 3:03:52 PM PDT by spacejunkie2001
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To: kcvl
Thnx.

"Terry Moran talks to experts in several key areas that contribute to the spread of AIDS in black America, including the disproportionate number of black men in prison. Prisons have AIDS infection rates five times higher than outside the walls, and many men go into prison HIV negative and come out infected, often without knowing it, since there is no comprehensive national testing, prevention, or treatment program for prison and jail inmates. "

Now that's a problem.

26 posted on 05/09/2012 3:04:41 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: Paladin2

I guess maybe they should stay out of prison then!


27 posted on 05/09/2012 3:05:53 PM PDT by kcvl
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To: spacejunkie2001

That just blows a whole in the libs theory.


28 posted on 05/09/2012 3:06:48 PM PDT by goseminoles
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To: nobamanomore

“It’s all whitey’s fault! AIDS be racist! Tryin’ to keep the brothers and sisters down!”

Jeremiah Wright
http://www.dogpile.com/search/web?fcoid=417&fcop=topnav&fpid=27&q=whites+invented+aids+to+kill+blacks&ql=


29 posted on 05/09/2012 3:11:25 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto.)
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To: kcvl
Why isn't the administration cracking down on the behavior that is causing this epidemic, like they are trying to do with obesity?

Oh, yeah, overweight people aren't donating en masse to the the regime like the LGBT community is (which is also the reason that 0 had to make a public announcement today).

30 posted on 05/09/2012 3:15:56 PM PDT by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: kcvl

HIV for Trayvon!


31 posted on 05/09/2012 3:18:01 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: Iron Munro

Nah, that was just a TV show (Cosby).


32 posted on 05/09/2012 3:19:52 PM PDT by lacrew (Mr. Soetoro, we regret to inform you that your race card is over the credit limit.)
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To: WellyP

I think I’ll stick with what these people have to say:

http://www.cdc.gov/condomeffectiveness/latex.htm


33 posted on 05/09/2012 3:41:14 PM PDT by MtBaldy (If Obama is the answer, it must have been a really stupid question)
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To: Paladin2
thank you... ya beat me
34 posted on 05/09/2012 3:59:51 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Lockbox

Prison homo behavior! We need to stop bowing down to homo activity in prisons! Man on man rape is used as a form of torture on other men. Homos need to be identified and removed from the general prison population.

Seriously, we are harming a lot of innocent women and children who are the receivers of the disease brewing in homo prisons.


35 posted on 05/09/2012 4:03:20 PM PDT by SaraJohnson
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To: SaraJohnson

I’m all in favor of identifying the homo sex predator prison population and hanging them until dead. It’s one of the few parts of sharia I like.


38 posted on 05/09/2012 4:31:10 PM PDT by wrencher
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I’m hoping that someday scientists will be able to nail down the cause of how this disease gets transmitted. If we can learn how it is transmitted, someday, perhaps we can contain it.


39 posted on 05/09/2012 4:41:13 PM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: kcvl

Isn’t there anything that Holder can do for his people?

He can at least advise them to stop that fast and furious sex.


40 posted on 05/09/2012 4:44:45 PM PDT by 353FMG
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