laura laurian. rural. bath to start this strange new disease affecting healthy young americans looks like this a period between the first outbreak of aids summer nine hundred eighty one and one nine hundred eighty five not only were people coming down with a it's dying and so forth but nobody knew who had it or who didn't now more than thirty years since its arrival the face of aids looks like this but the social stigma of this disease lingers persons get educated who but in the back of their mind h.i.v. may still be a little dirty secret the biggest part of this little secret is its growth across black america as of n.a.s.a.'s gotten a hold in the african-american community it's it's it's this right here and that's spreading out that way despite in the african-american community a collective silence has enabled it to spread across gender and sexual orientation african-americans tend to have sex with african-americans it's black men and black men usually it's black men and black women usually this prairie