All Blog Posts Tagged 'HIV' (2)

MEMPHIS, TN – Police say an employee at the Westwood Swimming Pool is charged with Aggravated Rape and Criminal Exposure to HIV of a 17 year-old girl.

According to investigators, the teenage girl told police that Timothy Bernard Payne offered to give her a ride home from the pool. The girl told investigators, instead of taking her home, Payne took her to his house in South Memphis. Payne then made the girl go into a wooded area, where he took out… Continue

When we talk about black people and AIDS, our minds often shift to Africa, where the AIDS epidemic has completely destroyed communities and left generations of orphans. A new report from the Black AIDS Institute says that we should also be paying close attention to AIDS in the black American community. According “Left Behind - Black America: A Neglected Priority in the Global AIDS,” the number of African Americans with AIDS is comparable to the… Continue