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Aunt Martha's Offers Free HIV testing to Honor National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

Aunt Martha’s is recognizing National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day by offering free, confidential HIV testing.
 
NBHAAD is a national HIV/AIDS testing and treatment community mobilization initiative designed to encourage blacks across the United States to get educated, get tested, get involved and get treated around HIV/AIDS, as it continues to devastate black communities. 
 
In 2008, an estimated 18,328 blacks received an AIDS diagnosis, a number that has remained relatively stable since 2005. While blacks represent approximately 13 percent of the U.S. population, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that the group accounts for almost half of the nation’s AIDS cases.
 
There is no need to schedule an appointment; and test results will be available that same day.

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