Saturday, December 01, 2007
Huckabee releases AIDS statement
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/index.cfm?FuseAction=Blogs.View&Blog_id=778 Mike Huckabee has become the first Republican Presidential candidate to put out a statement on domestic and global HIV/AIDS policy—here’s the details:
The suffering and loss of life caused by HIV/AIDS is a national and international tragedy. Here at home, more than a million of us have HIV or AIDS, with 40,000 new cases last year. The incidence of new infections has not declined in fifteen years. This disease is especially devastating to our minority communities, which account for two of every three new cases. While African-Americans are only 13% of our population, they are half of our AIDS cases. The rate of infection is ten times as high for African-Americans as for whites, and three times as high for Latinos. Ending this disparity must be one of our top goals.
While we must continue our global leadership on HIV/AIDS, we must also take care of our… (more)
