the new epidemic

[Guest guest]

has anyone seen Parade magazine today. being the conservative Republican rag

that it is normally I do not read it and simply throw it away with most of the

Sunday paper. out of boredom I paged through it and on page 9 is a brief article

about the new crisis in aids. the article states that among African-American

people from 2006 to 2009 the incident rate of aids went up 48%! that is huge!

this new epidemic the article states " epicenter falls in the South, where

poverty and lack of affordable health care are thwarting education,testing, and

treatment. " Eight years ago at a support group I used to go to I met a guy who

came from Florida. he told us he got sick with aids and was sent to a case

manager at the hospital in which he was treated. when his case manager found

out he was positive she gave him a one way bus ticket to new York. he said he

found new York city to be overwhelming. someone there told him to go to Albany

because there is good aids medical care there and not the great competition for

medical care that new York city has. so he ended up in the support group I was

in. is this unbelievable? Eight years ago Florida dealt with aids by sending its

down and out positive people to new York.

it is no wonder or surprise that aids is " eating up " the African-American

people. I recently went to a conference about hiv and aging held at a local

black church. there were 4 African-American pastors on the panel that spoke.

one in particular kept quoting the bible and openly condemning homosexuality

calling it nonsense and sin. no one on the panel disagreed and they all remained

silent (like a silent approval). from the audience several women gave their

encouraging approval saying " amen " . after hearing this rant of unholy b.s. I

raised my hand saying " thank you for sharing that reasoning with us. now I know

why aids is spreading so much through the African-American community. "

apparently it is spreading in the south faster than anywhere else. I wonder if

Florida still sends its down and out aids cases to new York.