Sen. Barack Obama is scheduled to take a televised AIDS test during his visit to Kenya this week. In staging this made-for-TV event, Obama says he’s “leading by example” and wants to remove the stigma of getting an AIDS test.
Closer to home, ABC News will air a primetime special tonight at 10 pm E/P, “Out of Control: AIDS in Black America.” The show’s producer, Betsey Arledge, said:
I hope everyone, African American and not, realize that we have an epidemic right in our backyard that is just as bad and caused by many of the same forces as that in Africa and that we’re paying no attention to it. It is criminal that we have all of these resources at our finger tips and some of our citizens are suffering this way.
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