* African-Americans account for 33% of the total AIDS cases in the US
* In 1994 African-American women comprised 57% of the total cases among women
* Among infection drug users, African-Americans made up over half of all AIDS cases in 1994
* Also in 1994, 62% of infected children were African-American
* 36% of homosexual AIDS cases occur in African-Americans
* Injection drug use is a major factor in infection among African-Americans
* African-Americans are twice as likely to use drugs intravenously than whites so they have a greater risk of getting the disease this way
* Therefore, there are more black injection drug users with HIV than white
* Funding agencies have not studied African-Americans as on of their main focuses
* An obstacle of prevention for blacks is that there is suspicion about the real intentions of white health official since the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
* There are few prevention programs out there for African-Americans
* One intervention with videos exclusively with black actors that were played in three weekly three hour group sessions found that their clients reduced the amount of times they had unprotected anal intercourse by 50%
* Another intervention included activities that targeted black men and gave out condom coupons for pharmacies and the people acquiring condoms went up dramatically thus decreasing risks about black women and men