From Brett Malone, Executive Director of the Philadelphia Center in Shreveport, LA:
"The
CDC released it's annual surveillance report today for HIV/AIDS... it's
not good, folks.
Louisiana
is now ranked #2 for new AIDS diagnoses (rate of diagnosis per
capita)…. Baton Rouge is now ranked #1 for new HIV infections (rate of
diagnosis per capita)*...
THIS is what happens when
the there is ZERO state funding for HIV prevention and EDUCATION (it's
all related - and we're in this fight together, teachers!)... and our
youth are suffering because of it (33% of new infections are with folks
between 13-24yrs).
The only $$ for prevention is from federal
sources - which are grossly insufficient to deal with an epidemic the
size of the one we now have in Louisiana...
Ignorance (and lack of resources) lead to suffering... (and death)."
(*Pages 64 and 74 of Centers for Disease Control report)
Read CDC report here.
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