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According to an article on The Root, HIV rates are now worse in D.C. than in West Africa. Three percent of the population in Washington, D.C. is HIV positive. That’s just counting the people who’ve been tested. Federal officials believe anywhere from a quarter to a third of people living with HIV in the U.S. don’t know it.

Perhaps even more disturbing is the next fact that is stated that more than three-quarters of all HIV-positive D.C. residents are black. That means more than 75 percent. More than 25 percent of all positive D.C. residents are black women. Is this now becoming an epidemic in America? According to Shannon Hader, Director of the District’s HIV/AIDS Adminstration, “We have every mode of transmission — men having sex with men, heterosexual and injected drug use — going up, all on the rise, and we have to deal with them.”

Is no one responsible anymore? We are not uneducated about HIV/AIDS and using protection in America and still people are spreading and acquiring HIV/AIDS at alarming rates. Why are people not using condoms? Why do people still think it is okay to be promiscuous or inject themselves with dirty needles? Are these people just plain stupid? Are they in defiance of the knowledge they know to be true, and trying to test it?

For God’s sake people, use clean needles and do not sleep around with lots of people. If you do have sex, use a condom!! Wake up and smell the coffee already! Or suffer a terrible fate at your own hands. It’s your choice really, at least in most cases. Are these people testing their own mortality? Do they want to die?  Wake up and be responsible already, otherwise I feel no pity for what you have done to yourself. If one has the knowledge and refuses to use it in a proper manner, then who is to blame, only but yourself.