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Women ages 24 to 55 account for 35.7% of all new HIV diagnoses (AIDS Vu, 2019).

African American Women continue to bear the heaviest burden of new HIV diagnoses representing 83.7% (AIDS Vu, 2019). 

African American Women represent % of the population diagnosed with HIV in NC (NCPH, 2020)

African American women accounted for 66% of new diagnoses in North Carolina (NCPH, 2020). 

They drew a circle that pushed you out—

Rejected, ridiculed, without a doubt.

But Love and Friends had the wit to win:

                                                 We drew a circle and took you in! - Adapted from "Outwitted" E. Markham

The Circle of Friends