African-Americans make up about 13 percent of the U.S. population, but they account for almost half of HIV-infection cases in the country. An upcoming documentary by PBS FRONTLINE called Endgame: AIDS in Black America looks at this epidemic. Fresh Air's Terry Gross spoke with the director, Renata Simone, and Robert Fullilove, a Columbia University professor and chairman of the HIV/AIDS advisory committee at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, about the documentary. Fullilove told Fresh Air that when he started his work in the 1980s, about 20 percent people in the U.S. living with AIDS were African-American. "If we continue on the current trend in the year 2015, especially in the South, it will probably be the case that 5 to 6 percent of all African-American adults who are sexually active will be infected with the virus."
- Source: Kqed
