and black men usually it's black men and black women usually we're spreading death among ourselves. both black men down and women are at much greater risk of getting age i v compared to their white counterparts youth as well as adults. we began our investigation by looking at men who account for seventy percent of all new infections among blacks but what was surprising is that it's not just men who have sex with men who need to be concerned about hiv. i did everything possible to get in this position yeah i want to now that you know

the way i did my life was fast and free so i pretty much got what i was looking for if i'm not mistaken now with and p g community clone and i think that's why our first the first film went out when they told me i didn't believe it you know because i had all these s.t.d. is like now. it's a cool way. you know bad i was my thinking in baghdad it over way but it didn't go away and stanley's response was going now you know oh this doesn't you know as like i want to be on with it you know like ok if i get it i'm like yeah hi you know i want to get our. and i probably did go get had i day you know i would not think about it because i know i know know me so i play and we get home and my dad you know you tell me all head on head along. he want to know who won i would

have buying. so many drills to be to take my calls for me. and i had and you know one time i had to get stats like three times a week. just like. i would think. be a neighborhood if you don't wish it was you know everything everything is heavy you know your legs they have you very weak and you still got to get in get it out to get these three shots a week yeah that's the way i think. i had three blood transfusions because of the name. so it was an experience of fitness self and after living with hiv for over thirty years if i tell you my story if you say all that you got to go through. and it's like.

everybody's body is different and you know everybody body is different what i go through you may never go through then again you might go through it twice is worse so don't look at me and say oh yeah i'm opposed to not opposed to. someone then with h.l.v. . i remember when major magazine said this would never be a heterosexual disease it would always be you know in the in the gay community it would always be in the drug community it would now have a spread to they had all sorts of community well that was false but when people heard that it was like oh thank god i'm heterosexual i don't have to deal with i have to be worried about this you know this epidemic our investigation reaffirmed that men having sex with men are highly susceptible to contract ing hiv. what we also learned is that straight ahead roe sexual black men are

a rising tide in contributing to the growth of this deadly virus take ten percent of the population may be african-american but we make up a much larger percentage of the individuals. that infected with hiv the any and it is screwing especially among young people young african-american the centers for disease control have presented strong data showing that youth between ages thirteen to twenty nine are an ever growing population falling prey to h i v. however we learned of a segment of this group that seems to have gone almost unnoticed youth born with this disease i've heard women use the terminology you know he gave this to me when somebody gave you something it's because you accepted i contracted hiv from

this man i was in a relationship with him and we had a child i love my daughter he meant for the i thank him and for whatever reason that god used him in me as a vehicle to bring this challenge to the world h.i.v.'s here the elephant is in the room is what i'm doing with that elephant i no longer. i have locked myself into this anger you know look what he did to me. when i burned spawn thousand entirely positive i was six years old and. it was on my doctor's appointment and you know how they have a prayer room for kids you know when waiting for the doctor and i was in the play roles playing and they took one mom out the pay room so i guess those who are paying for the tell me my doctor came out the room and he came and picked me up on a plane home and when we went into the room i see my mom and bill of tears

so me i'm pulling away from my doctor like mommy i'm still in the toys because you know i don't know why my mom was crying and she was like most we had just come in and the doctors was like you know your mom want to talk to us i'm like ok and she just told me she just my birthday wow i guess i just passed so like stand up and how she just blurt she's blurted out and so my first question was that oh yeah i'm a dad because i used to hear like a lot of kids in africa dying from a child being made said i was my biggest fear that i thought i was going to die they broke down and saw a way that i could understand they you know there's medications out there that's going to take care of you but you're not this is something that's going that you're going to live with forever i shared with the school that raised every possible i never expected outcome i never expected teachers would have discriminated against or even i never expected that administrators would not have taken the time to learn and understand how this disease is transmitted so they wouldn't discriminate

against it. so when i went to school the next day and i had told my own friend i say you know i went to the doctor and my doctor told me that i had my mom told me that i had hiv and as soon as i said that my teacher she automatically pulled my friend away from me and probably glows around the class so much i'm due to the fact that her knowing that i was hiv positive i couldn't go on any crash if she's to put garbage bags around me like if i had to use the bathroom she let me use the bathroom or myself choose to take my school lunch away from me or do so factor me being a child be positive she was abused she was abused by always school system other children started harassing gravely and she even got older but to know that adults treated this child the way that she did i mean a child was in catholic school. private schools you would think you know somebody know better they do better that was not the case kids used to make fun of me saying that i had the monster or they used to just that i would get things to me like this

one guy used to have long hair she cut my hair off one day like i was when i was watching a movie in class and all of a sudden i heard says gold. and i just want like and she was like yeah i'm cutting your hair up because you're going to die soon and i just sat there and i love how continue doing it and because i'd just like as i said when growing up i just felt like you know this is how my life is going to be like everybody just going to make fun of me but everyone did not make fun of her and the tender age of six trichotomy oprah winfrey and i was a millennium dream at the time that's what made donal's was doing kids that dealing with any type of onus they would send them back to disney world i went on my show and i was sick at that time i had a fever and i was like oh i'm sick i don't want to sit next to me and she just open arms to make sweetheart i don't care what you have you're on my shoulder i want you to tell me what what do you go through in like this remember me saying man talk to

old and she was just crying my mother just start crying because man just telling everybody i'm having a child being. always sick and i thought i was going down oprah just like well how about if i send you to disney world or something and hope i didn't move and then went there i always wanted to go there and i. hope listening to disney world i confronted her dad he said to me ain't life ain't life a bit. you know how long i've been living with this he called me and he was a spike while he was on the show why did you tell people to eat i'm positive you shouldn't do that how do you think i'm going to look so is like who says like one though he does it's like when he hears acid it's on the magazine or science on the he'll just get upset like he's not supportive of why though as raven grew into her teens life with her mom became strained they took thirteen i always tell people i

did try taking my life away my mom started making really arguing in my crisis i get really mad at her it was just it was a lot to me at that i say my teenage years was like my most of. my cancer isn't right sixteen seventeen i had to make realize like you know even. their mom didn't do something because you know she didn't know at the time and i had to realize i had to put my family sense into this like. i was born with that i did x. that is you know i can't be mad at my mother what can she do you know let me make make you make your future better don't don't look beyond the path i don't look at a child we as a bad thing and in my and of other youth in raven's age group who are prone to contract in h i v. the reaction of people what they're going to think of. the

stigma that's the main one i think of the stigma that's why a lot of young kids the scary think it tested me on probably that they discussed being on stuff like that but i'm talking as they young because i'm still in the young generation that you know and that's the that's what the big al biggest problem is that you know people accept being a. mistake. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm charging welcome to the big picture.

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it's the. east. african americans have having made two major spots of the family in the church to address whatever crisis they are going through because the church was the place that sent us historically the collets the church was the place of you had the illness the church of god called and support you you know of someone died and you

can depend on the church to come and bring the food you know to me come in bring whatever you need even help me to bury your loved ones you know i mean that was the church of whatever you didn't have the chance of going to come in and fill that gap for you. but when maids first black america most family members were caught off guard those two points those points of comfort were not quite there you know thank god some people had great family support. most families back then did not know what he was on they were afraid you know there was not a lot of information there was a lot of myths so we have that myth that it's not part of me i'm not gay i'm not a lesbian oh i'm a lesbian i can't catch it. i'm not in that age group i can't catch it yes it is it's it's it's in the house many victims of a child v.

and aids were shunned by close family members and when they turned to the church the heavy heavy stigma that initially applied to. the top three anybody willing to come forward with hearing that they would be attacked as racially by their religious leaders the church you know was caught up in this is a homosexual disease and you know it's you know again you know going to hell and we not going to you know we're not going to address that that he was so important for the black church to be there for the community because of the black church did not want to accept it because you are gay or begin to see a child being in had a bigger sort of impact in that if you were not then allowed to potentially good that church has. been known effective jeter but if it did your mother your onto your brothers your sisters because they then also felt like maybe the you know being a part of that being a child so in the beginning it's

a gay white man's disease black folks it's not out issue really when people were dying left and right by nineteen eighty six african-americans accounted for twenty five percent of those infected with hiv causes for this rapid increase were disproportionately low response at the national state and local levels adding to these external factors was the growing stigma surrounding this infection. unlike many other communities when somebody. an african-american has each and that person essentially says the incidence into. silence by family members and local clergy bound by fears and denial only strengthened the growing prejudiced against those infected with hiv every black family has someone who has been addicted to drugs or alcohol as someone who was gay you know so that wasn't a new phenomenon what was new was that we were not about to talk about it in public

i had a minister has said to me it's a rule reverend cheek. homosexuality i don't have that problem in my church has had a problem. i said how because the church twenty three b.c. twelve hundred people has a soul in twelve hundred people and easily does say that ten percent of the population this gay and lesbian and you don't see anybody so you don't have anybody in your choir you don't have anybody on your deacon board on your minister ariel staff on you in your administrative office no way you don't see no one gay and as i understand homosexuality and drug addiction are two taboos that were well entrenched within the black family but almost never openly discussed. aids in the black family added one more tip to subject to be consciously ignored many times i would preach a sermon call for family and that would have the family come and say you can't say

that he was gay or you cannot say that he died of aids you can say doubt of cancer but they can you can say he died of aids are you kidding me all of the whole community no. so the way i used to give a round that was i would have remarks come first and of course people would get up and say well i knew when he first got infected and the family would get us i'd never said a word it was like the big elephant in the room and nobody wanted to talk about it . we explored internal factors that led to the early growth in the aids epidemic in black america while doing so we learned that silence fear and denial so evident back then as undergone little more than cosmetic changes thirty one years later. the looming load

. and i have quite a few friends that were raised in a church you know i had lots in the church service and then surprised if in church visiting but it was something that i just didn't see. in my spirit and still totally come to. enjoy the music but a lot of the other rituals just didn't sink in and as i became older and found all way islam was the only way that i knew and one place that i knew go back to. something spiritually something a little more religiously grounding. from the same date isn't anything in the koran actually says about homosexuality being gay it's just a lot of the other. laws govern by the sharia laws you know things that were not

a part of the sort of what the profit were practice. where it goes into homosexuality. it being a sense. of when i first found out i was positive. like i said i really didn't think it would be possible i was doing a student teaching and i want all my lunch break to get my answers to get the results. and when i walked out today and he said i was positive it was like i was livin in a fog. but i was in a daze. and i went back to work like nothing had ever happened but it did it devastate i didn't know where to turn to talk to. how to tell family. i was lost. it was my mother father and we were

any kitchen. and my husband says oh hi how are you what's going on and they say nothing you know i had him with me there as well when i saw you know i need you guys to this is why i'm involved with it in my mother was cooking we came in he said he wanted to talk and he came in and my husband came in. he told us he had something to say to us and i told that i was a positive this is why i'm in a relationship with my mother started crying and my father being the man he is ask me so what does mean you want dresses and i bring you do you will he said that the day said mother was going out and just life floored me that started the whole argument and i just walked out you know that put a big strain on a relationship. is different it's better than it was there isn't a whole lot of conversation or close to non conversation about my sexuality me

being gay or maybe any positive. washington d.c. carries the distinction of being ground zero for having the highest h.i.v. infection rate in america all of d.c. has an epidemic because there are unusual consolation as not being a state not even be in city where a cut out all of d.c. is out of them an epidemic level but d.c. is not so unique when compared to other major cities across the nation if you compare metro d.c. that is diminished did the descript lumpia and its suburbs metro d.c. with metro philadelphia metro chicago metro miami where about the same there are twelve cities in the united states in which half of the people with hiv aids lives city d.c.

is one of those twelve cities. we spoke to medical professionals concerning the disproportionate rise of hiv aids in the black community you ask forty five to fifty percent of your community be douglas with the disease as we know how to prevent it by the way african-americans are more likely to get tested in any other ethnic group more likely to get to know we get tested would always go for the results and we always don't get into care particularly in rural job graphical remote areas we tend to have a physician or a clinician who has graduated from school or from college you know ten fifteen years ago when never had to cheat persons or interview positive because it was all you remember they infectious disease physicians were treated so they still don't straight and they still don't know and they are not willing to. what is the level of hiv training provided for medical professionals the majority of the local hospitals and doctors offices within the district of columbia i think staff

physicians nurses ancillary personnel understand that this is not a disease of casual contact so that you go in the hospitals now you don't see red bags outside of the door you don't see signs up there of isolation just because a person is a positive you may see it up there for a host of other reasons but not for being positive. it would seem that this heightened awareness of medical professionals would lead to earlier detection of new age hiv patients six to two percent of patients who actually come into care are diagnosed with aids within a year of being testing positive for hiv let me see that again within a year of a diagnosis of hiv over sixty two percent of those patients are diagnosed with aids those patients the majority of them were receiving medical care what it means then is that the clinicians the physicians physician assistant nurse practitioner

advanced practice nurse pharmacists dentist did not know the clinical manifestations of the disease or didn't pay attention. of those who can afford medical care it appears that many medical practitioners are not adequately trained in detecting the early signs of hiv or may simply choose not to treat such patients nobody worries about being positive with syphilis and or nobody even thinks twice about most herpes infections but h.i.v. seems to carry a burden. that we just can't explain. this fear seems to be borne of not just the general public but among medical practitioners as well we had i had an opportunity to speak with some young physicians. just finishing up residence and a group of them were talking at

a meeting we were at recently and to ask them both is each of you being taught in your in your program and told them said to us you know well when we're at the hospital denotations and these are residents getting ready to go to become full fledged physicians visiting a little one of when those patients are not are positive ok clinicians clinicians with whom hiv has been a room all of their life. and we were stunned when one young woman talked about being in the clinic. and a patient was each of you visited some cookies and it should be. going to the police went in front of us said to her did you eat those which will be positive cookies.

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