Rate of new infections in blacks slows, but epidemic still a major crisis.

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While the rate of HIV/AIDS infection among African Americans has remained roughly stable for more than a decade, blacks still make up more than half of all new diagnoses and account for 49% of people living with HIV/AIDS – and just 12% of the population of the U.S.

That rate would have been higher if not for the creation of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD), says LaMont Evans, CEO of Healthy Black Communities Inc. When five organizations came together to start NBHAAD in 1999, the goal was to educate people about behavior that increases the risk for HIV infection, encourage testing for the disease, and to persuade those who test positive to seek treatment.

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