TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WTXL) - Today is National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day and Florida A&M University wants you to get educated.
Different groups met up at the Al Lawson Center to help the community prevent this disease.
This year's theme across the country is "Stay the course. The fight is not over."
Here in Leon County, there are significantly more new cases of HIV in the black community in recent years. Florida also leads the nation in the number of HIV diagnoses, with more than 100,000 in 2016.
"The black community has been disproportionately affected -- ranging from 45 percent to 48 percent, depending on the resources or data that you are looking at -- so, we have to come out here to be our sisters' and brothers' keepers," said Dr. Maria Okeke, a FAMU professor.
The university teamed up with the Leon County Health Department and the National Health Equity Alliance to make the program possible.
