HIV/AIDS ravaging city’s Black teen community

Chicago, Ill — The Chicago Department of Public Health reports that African Americans account for 68 percent of all teen HIV cases. And the mostly Black adolescents, who showed up for National Teen Test Day seemed to be aware of that risk . . . “It’s killing us,” said Allen Linton, an 18-year-old University of Chicago freshman who helped plan the event . . . at the Trinity United Church of Christ, and was organized by Metropolitan Area Group for Igniting Civilization [to read more]

by Leila Noelliste | on chicagodefender.com | published: 10 January 2008