Global: AIDS in segments of Black America as severe as many African countries - report

In a new report, "Left Behind!", the Black Aids Institute in Los Angeles documents the neglect of extent of the AIDS epidemic namong Black Americans. According to Phill Wilson, CEO of the Black AIDS Institute and one of the authors of the
report, "More Black Americans are infected with HIV than the total populations of people living with HIV in seven of the 15 countries served by PEPFAR [President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief."Wilson and a wide range of other experts involved in the report applaud the efforts to treat AIDS in Africa, but call for a comparably urgent response at home.