Growing concern about HIV/AIDS in the African-American community is
bringing together leaders in Detroit today to combat a disease that
state health officials said infects blacks at a rate about 10 times
higher than whites.(Pictured: Rev. Horace Sheffield III heads the Detroit chapter of the national AIDS commission.)
The event, led by African-American clergy in the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, is a breakfast of religious, political and labor leaders at Laborer's Union Local 1191.
The nation's black church leaders have been "woefully silent, even though this is something that is destroying people," the Rev. Horace Sheffield III, pastor of New Galilee Missionary Baptist Church in Detroit, said Saturday.
Sheffield heads the Detroit chapter of the national AIDS commission.
Supporters are pushing a congressional bill known as National Black Clergy for the Elimination of HIV/AIDS Act of 2009, introduced in April to help tackle the spread of AIDS in African-American communities like Detroit.
The bill calls for changes including research grants to learn how to reduce the spread of the virus.Click Here to Read More...
Source: Niraj Warikoo and Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press
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Black church leaders, when you do speak up about HIV/AIDS, I pray you follow God's Word and teach teens what It says about premarital sex. I pray you don't give a condomatic (new word) opinion.