For black women, the rate is 12 times higher than for white women. Guilford County outreach worker Lloyd Mickens says a lack of empowerment is part of the reason why.

The New Age of HIV/AIDS Part 2

Who is at greatest risk and why? See how what was once just a big-city problem now also affects small town and rural areas. Who pays for treating and preventing HIV? We'll talk about what scientists are doing to stop it. And see where people living with HIV find the strength to fight it every day. <br>
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Doctors reported the first case of AIDS in North Carolina in 1983, but epidemiologists believe the disease was here as early as 1980. In the years immediately following, the disease affected primarily white, gay men. But not anymore. This is the new age of HIV and AIDS. <br>

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Who is at greatest risk and why? See how what was once just a big-city problem now also affects small town and rural areas. Who pays for treating and preventing HIV? We'll talk about what scientists are doing to stop it. And see where people living with HIV find the strength to fight it every day. Doctors reported the first case of AIDS in North Carolina in 1983, but epidemiologists believe the disease was here as early as 1980. In the years immediately following, the disease affected primarily white, gay men. But not anymore. This is the new age of HIV and AIDS.

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