February 11, 2008
Statement of Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., Director, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness and Information Day, February 7, 2008
The grossly disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on African Americans
is a public health crisis that we at the National Institutes of
Health (NIH) and as a nation must address boldly. Nearly 27 years
into the AIDS epidemic, approximately half of the new HIV infections
that occur each year in the United States are among African Americans,
even though they represent only 13 percent of the U.S. population.
