https://www.okwassup.com/new-aids-tes/ News, Entertainment, Lifestyle and more! Wed, 27 May 2015 07:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://www.okwassup.com/new-aids-tes/#comment-1596 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:05:28 +0000 http://okwassup.com/2011/08/30/new-aids-tes/#comment-1596 Speaking as a Black-American female…the most infected AND affected group between ages 25 and 55 for at least the past decade…I welcome this news! Now. Whether most Black-American females (AND males for that matter) who are sexually-active will take advantage of this device???…is another hurdle altogether.It seems the Black-American community has got more "TABOO" issues than a few and quite frankly those critical issues are KILLING us, as individuals and as a people. I'm a Forensic Behavioral Specialist. Don't even get me started on trying to educate My people on Mental Health and Mental Illness.Also: I develop psychosocial programs for Sickle Cell Disease organizations.Sickle Cell Disease isn't called the "forgotten disease" in the Black community for nothing. Babies continue to be born with SCD (an excruciatingly painful genetic blood disease) despite a simple blood test available to ANYONE wanting to know their own status (are you a SC trait carrier?) BEFORE you become pregnant OR (if male) impregnate someone.But I digress.Again: I welcome this news. And I pray that it Truly makes a difference! 

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