Monday, August 27, 2007

Black doctors group wants AIDS tackled

The National Medical Association, which represents black physicians, is urging the federal government to use its resources to eradicate HIV/AIDS, says Dr. Albert W. Morris Jr., president.

From 2001 to 2005, nearly 70 percent of newly diagnosed cases of HIV/AIDS were in black women, Morris said in an interview. About 49 percent of patients living with the disease in the United States are black, he said.

"We issued a call of action to the federal government to re-examine this terrible, terrible epidemic."read more

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