• By 1994, AIDS had become the No. 1 killer of all African-Americans ages 25 to 44. The virus was 16 times as common in black women as in their white counterparts — and the gap would widen over the next few years.
• Last year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, using the first comprehensive national estimates of lifetime risk of H.I.V. for several key populations, predicted that if current rates continue, one in two African-American gay and bisexual men will be infected with the virus.
• That compares with a lifetime risk of one in 99 for all Americans and one in 11 for white gay and bisexual men.
Live... die... who cares?
More to the point... who doesn't? OTOH, some people wanna just pretend it's not happening...
