East Texas Health Organization Sees Increase In HIV Cases

Health Horizons, an East Texas health care organization, has seen more HIV-positive people this year than it did all last year. As of July, eight people out of 800 had tested positive; whereas for all of 2008 they had only six positives out of more than 1,000 testers. The majority of these HIV-positive people were African-American men. Health Horizon’s Executive Director, Wilbert Brown, is associating the spike in numbers to their effective advertising which targets high-risk groups.

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