Back in December, I spoke with a woman at the Guilford County Health Department. She's worked in AIDS education, prevention and services for years. Many of her concerns were echoed in Leonard Pitts' column today - and the dreaded taboo strikes again, this time the taboo of homosexuality and drug use - the first a matter of image and social norms, the second of legality. No matter the reason for the taboo, though - the result is the same: incomplete data and increased complexity in identifying risk for education and treatment.
The hope on the horizon: even while Pitts largely sees apathy in the black community, Greensboro's Winter Walk for AIDS 2006 was filled with young black men and women, from high school to college and beyond - the future of AIDS research, education and treatment.
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