Every 9 1/2 minutes...

First National CDC HIV/AIDS Communication Campaign in More Than a Decade


via Out in America

Every 9 ½ minutes another person in America becomes infected with HIV. Officials from the White House, Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced [yesterday] a new five-year national communication campaign, Act Against AIDS, which highlights this alarming statistic and aims to combat complacency about the HIV/AIDS crisis in the United States.

According to CDC data released last year, about 56,000 Americans become newly infected with HIV each year — significantly more than was previously known — and more than 14,000 people with AIDS die each year in the United States.

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[NOTE de LifeLube: The site is pretty lite on the gays and, natch, features a "focus on abstinence." Otherwise, it seems pretty informative in a bland, governmental sort of way. Supposedly this campaign will have a second phase that will focus on the most impacted communities in the United States - and at that point gay men, particularly gay black men, should receive some much-needed attention. After all, it is gay men of all races that bear the biggest HIV/AIDS burden in this country - always have. Let's just see... We are certainly tired of having this issue officially ignored in favor of more politically palatable populations.]