The 21st century AIDS epidemics in the US is young, Black and gay. This was one of the major outcome of the 2008 AIDS conference. Several reasons have been advanced to explain why this particular population has been and is more at risk of infection. One that has received little attention so far was explored several years ago. In 2005 Laura Bogart and Sheryl Thorburn conducted a telephone survey to assess the relation between the endorsement of HIV/AIDS conspiracy beliefs and condom attitudes amongst African Americans (J Acquir Immune Defic …

The New York Times commenting on a report by The Black AIDS Institute, writes on the extent of the HIV epidemic amongst African American in the USA.
The report financed in part by the Ford Foundation and the Elton John AIDS Foundation, ranked the virtual Black American country 16th in the world in the number of people living with the AIDS virus.
“Nearly 600,000 African-Americans are living with H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, and up to 30,000 are becoming infected each year. When adjusted for age, their death rate is …