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Keeping It Real host and AIDS Walk Co-chair, Joe Hawkins, covers the 2nd Annual East Bay AIDS Walk sponsored by STARBUCKS in Oakland, California. Other sponsors included East Bay AIDS Advocacy Foundation, Farmacia Remedios, Alameda County Med Center, Alameda County Office of AIDS Administration, Peralta Community College, Clear Channel Community Affairs Department and Bay Area Christian Entertainment.

See interviews with Amanda Dierdorf Marketing representative for Starbuck's East Bay Divsion., Alameda County Public Health Director Arnold Perkins, East Bay AIDS Walk Co-Chair Gloria Cox-Crowell, Black Fire Fighters Association President Demond Simmons, AIDS Project of the East Bay HIV testing coordinator Jesus Moreno and Elisa Shephard-Moore of the California Faith Based State-wide Advisory Board on HIV/AIDS and Darryl Carey of the East Bay Small Business Council.

Special thank you to Tom Sherman who was our top fundraiser for East Bay AIDS Walk 06.

Alameda County HIV/AIDS Statistics:

Although African Americans are approximately 13% of the population in Alameda County, a disproportionate 44% of the people infected with HIV/AIDS since 1980 were/are African Americans.

Of all people living with HIV/AIDS in Alameda County, African-American men, (who are less than 5% of the population in the county),comprise the largest number of those infected with HIV.

Black men who have sex with men make up a staggering 42% of people living with HIV/AIDS in the county prompting concerned community members to press the city of Oakland to declare two state of emergencies.

Off all of the groups, men who have sex with men (all ethnicities) account for the majority or 62% of cumulative AIDS cases. There is growing concern about the continued increase of HIV/AIDS prevelalence among Latino men who have sex with men in the county as well.

White gay and bisexual men still have the highest rates of HIV/AIDS among white people in the county.

Of women infected with HIV in the county, African American women make up the fastest growing group with 60% of new HIV infections occuring in black women. Women have accounted for 20% or more of annual cases since 1997.

HIV/AIDS testing and treatment services:

* California HIV/AIDS Services
* National HIV/AIDS Services
* National Library of Medicine

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