(Savannah) HIV/AIDS cases are rising in the Coastal Health District's African American community. A day after National Black Aids Awareness Day the push for prevention is urgent. Here's a breakdown from The Georgia Department of Community Health. In 2008 there were 2,899 HIV/AIDS cases in the 8 county Coastal Health District… Blacks make up 74% of that number ---2,155, represent 74 percent of new AIDS diagnoses, and 78 percent of new HIV diagnoses. The J.C. Lewis Primary Health Care Center is battling the problem with education and free testing. "Knowledge and education is something you know if we don't have it we fail. You know we fall short. That's why we are very committed to doing that here. We have a team of Health Educators that go out into various communities to spread the knowledge in reference to HIV and AIDS," says Social Services Coordinator Ayana Eady. Free and confidential HIV/AIDS Testing is available at The J.C. Lewis Primary Health Care Center hrough Wednesday. "It's about a 30 minute process. So it's basically a swab. We're not going to do a finger stick. We'll do a swab. We'll get the test, we'll send it off to a lab, and it's about a week or so that we'll get the results back and they can find out what their status is." For more information on AIDS Testing call 912-495-8887.
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