Black AIDS rates in U.S. approach Africa

In D.C., for example, 5 percent of the population is HIV-positive.

I agree that the feds need to provide more funds for treatment and prevention, as well as for education and information. But those funds won’t do a lot of good unless a fair-sized subsector of African-Americans doesn’t get over homophobia, especially as driven by black churches. (And, despite being liberated enough to have an AIDS ministry, Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s conspiracy theories on the cause of AIDS, also held by many black Americans, don’t help.)

Gay sex “on the down low,” with bisexual partners then infecting women, is a major vector for the spread of AIDS among blacks.