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Washington, DC Beauty Salons Battle HIV/AIDS

Voice of America - January 2, 2004
Steve Baragona
Washington


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AIDS in the nation's capital is growing fastest among African-American women. In a bid to reduce the spread of H-I-V among this hard-hit group, the Washington, D-C health department is recruiting help from an unusual source. As V-O-A's Steve Baragona reports, beauty salons are distributing condoms and helping to spread the message of practicing safer sex.

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