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Other faces of AIDS. [videorecording]

Owings Mills, Md. : Maryland Public Television, c1989 1 videocassette (58 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE AV/9100571A
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Abstract: (Producer) Takes a look at the rapid spread of AIDS in minority communities. This program investigates AIDS in New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Washington, DC, and three other U.S. cities. Interviews feature former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, the Reverend Jesse Jackson, and others deeply involved in educational and health efforts to combat the illness. A few of the facts discussed in this program are: at present, the infection rate for AIDS is six times higher in America's minority communities than in the white community; nearly one third of reported AIDS cases involve black men and almost eight out of ten babies born with the virus are black; in some Hispanic barrios, the heterosexual transmission rate of the disease is also six times greater than that of whites.
Keywords: Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*ETHNOLOGY/*EPIDEMIOLOGY *Blacks *Hispanic Americans United States MONOGRAPHKWDacquiredimmunodeficiencysyndrome/KWDethnology/KWDepidemiologyKWDblacksKWDhispanicamericansunitedstatesmonograph
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