The CDC released shocking numbers this week, showing one out of every four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease. And the numbers for Black women are also growing.More Black women in the country are dying from AIDS than any other disease. It is also one of the leading causes of death for women of all races, only falling behind Cancer and Heart disease.With this being Women's Health Month -- activists say it's time for our community to wake up and act.The problem is growing."African Americans account for only 13 percent of the total population but yet and still African Americans are accounting for over half of all new HIV infections," says Arkansas AIDS Foundation Executive Director Berna Thomas.Hardly anyone's talking about it."Sex is so taboo…in our community, we tend to lead toward ‘if we don't talk about it, then it doesn't exist'," Thomas says.But it does exist and Deborah Patton will talk."I believe I have a purpose in this epidemic today," Patton says.She's HIV positive."I was infected through unprotected sex.
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