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An estimated one in five Americans living with HIV doesn't know their status...
July 10, 2012
Phill Wilson: "We Have the Tools To End the AIDS Epidemic"
Phill Wilson, founder and executive director of the Black AIDS Institute, explains how.
July 10, 2012
Julian Bond: HIV/AIDS Is "A Civil Rights Issue"
The former chairman of the NAACP looks back at the history of AIDS in black America.
July 10, 2012
Robert Fullilove: Inside the "Two Worlds of AIDS" in America
Columbia University's Robert Fullilove retraces the history of HIV/AIDS in black America.
July 10, 2012
Interactive: The Spread of HIV in Black America
The late 1980s marked a turning point in the history of AIDS in the United States.
July 10, 2012
Race and America's HIV Epidemic
In 1981, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published a notice that five young gay men in the Los Angeles area had died from an unusual form of pneumonia.
July 10, 2012
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ENDGAME: AIDS in Black America
A groundbreaking two-hour exploration of one of the country's most urgent, preventable health crises.
July 10, 2012
"ENDGAME" on NPR's "Fresh Air"
Every 10 minutes, someone in the U.S. contracts HIV. Half are black.
July 5, 2012
Why People Still Won't Get Tested for HIV
Three decades after the AIDS epidemic hit full-force, the United Nations now says it's possible to eradicate the disease by 2015 — in part by preventing new infections.
June 27, 2012