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Nevada's Faith Community Called to Act on HIV/AIDS

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Wednesday, February 7, 2007   

Calling it an "epidemic" in Nevada, activists are asking the state's faith-based community to do more to combat HIV/AIDS. It is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and in Nevada, African Americans account for about 1 in 5 persons living with HIV/AIDS. Demographically, it is an astonishing rate, given that only 7 percent of the state's population is African Americans.

Nationally, HIV infection is on the increase among young people of all races. Janet Serial, health committee chair of the Reno/Sparks N.A.A.C.P. chapter, says better education and testing are needed now.

"They're not aware that they are positive and thus, they're not using protection. So they're basically having unsafe sex, and unwittingly infecting other youths."

Serial's organization is challenging the faith-based community to devise an action plan to deal with the AIDS epidemic in Nevada. March 4 is the kickoff date for a "Black Church Week of Prayer for the Healing of AIDS." Nationally, AIDS is the number one killer of African American women ages 15 to 44. Serial says this has powerful repercussions for Nevada families, because women in this age group play such critical roles in the Black community.

"When those women die, or aren't able to care for their families, the family system itself is disrupted. You have children who, not only are orphaned at an early age, but don't get the kind of parenting that might contribute to their success in society."

More grim statistics that prove its epidemic proportions: AIDS is also now the number one killer of Black men, ages 25 to 44; and African American children account for well over half of all pediatric AIDS cases.

Information about the March 4 event can be found online at www.naacp.org/advocacy/health/.





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