Yo! Wear a hat, bruh!

At the 12th Annual Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections being held in Boston last week there was a whole bunch of scary news: the HIV rate among African Americans has doubled in the last decade while remaining steady in whites. To me this is quite simply a failure of "AIDS, Inc." to proffer a message of prevention that is effective among non-white populations. It has been my experience that many Black guys don't like to wear condoms (and shut up with that foolishness about "can't wear condoms"--I'm sure it's big, brotha, but it's not THAT big!). When the rate of HIV infection among urban African American males is rivalling that of certain sub-Saharan countries the solution is simple: "Wear a hat (condom), bruh!"