The Coalition for Justice and Respect, the Rainbow PUSH Coalition and other city civil rights organizations are partnering on a campaign to cut new HIV/AIDS infections by 3 percent in the Chicago African-American community by 2012.

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Marc Loveless, executive director of Coalition for Justice and Respect, said one of the main messages of the campaign is that anyone who is sexually active is at risk from the disease.

“The point that we have to help people understand is that if you are having sex with any person, you are not at low-risk. There’s no such thing as low risk,” he said.

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