Pastor Shane B. Scott told churchgoers that HIV is wiping out their community and anyone can get the disease. "Everybody who has HIV is not single and promiscuous. Everybody who has HIV and AIDS is young; everybody who has it is not old. Everybody can get HIV and Aids!"
Though African Americans only account for 12 percent of the U.S. population, they make up about 54 percent of all new HIV infections.
Sunday's event was part of national black HIV-AIDS Awareness Day... A nationwide effort to prevent the spread of the disease.
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