( search to implement interventions for b...)New HIV statistics indicate increasing toll of AIDS on African American community

search to implement interventions for black MSM is essential to reversing the epidemic in this population. Promoting leadership among black MSM and sustained capacity-building investments in the organizations that serve them is critical. Efforts to address homophobia and related stigma, discrimination and violence ?all of which increase HIV risk among black MSM ?are also needed.

Reduce impact of incarceration as driver of new HIV infections. ?AIDS cases among incarcerated persons are more than three times that of the general population, and African- Americans are disproportionately represented in U.S. prisons. Outdated and inconsistently implemented HIV prevention policies have failed to reduce risk behaviors among prisoners while incarcerated and after their release. Providing routine, voluntary HIV testing for prisoners upon entry and release; making condoms available in correctional facilities; expanding re-entry programs to help prisoners transition back into society; and ensuring that their HIV prevention, substance abuse, mental health and housing needs are met prior to release are key to stopping HIV's spread in the African-American community.

Reduce role of injection drug use in sustaining the AIDS epidemic. ?Among blacks, one in five (19%) new HIV infections is attributed to the sharing of contaminated needles through injection drug use. Reducing the role of injection drug use in the spread of HIV will require an increased investment in education and substance abuse programs designed to prevent people from using injection drugs in the first place and help current users to quit, and establishing needle-exchange programs to minimize the risk of infection from sharing needles.

Expand proven HIV prevention, diagnosis and care programs. ?Far too many African Americans lack accurate information about how HIV is transmitted, prevented and treated. Approximately 250,000 Americans ?many of them African American ?are
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Source:Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health


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