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What’s Up With HIV Prevention and Black Women?

Just so y’all know…  In the United States, Black women are still being diagnosed with HIV —  yes HIV, also known as Human Immunodeficiency Virus — at rates higher than any other racial and ethnic group of women. In fact, let’s run the math.  Black women have a 1 in 54 lifetime risk of being […]