Jul 3, 2012
Originally published in The Hill, by Karen Finney
As the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare last week, the AIDS Memorial Quilt returned to Washington, D.C., for the first time in 16 years, and a new study from the D.C. Department of Health showed that African-Americans — consistent with national trends — are more likely to be infected with HIV/AIDS, with rates of heterosexual African-American women in D.C.'s poorest neighborhoods nearly doubling in two years, while an estimated 20 to 30 percent of the District's HIV-positive population are unaware they are infected.
