If "Love and Hip hop Atlanta" is "reality"..where's the focus on AIDS?

By blkutimes staff


The petitions have started and the twitter beefs are flowing. Over 3million+ tuned in to Love and Hiphop- Atl, to see the beef and drama ensue of overage b level superstars trying to make a career of 5 minutes of fame. You have a few scenarios that make Love and Hip-hop NYC look like the "Cosby Show."



 The focus here is placed on Mimi, former Bad Boy producer Stevie J's baby's mother, Joseline, a former or current stripper who has record deal dreams, and Stevie J, a producer who has influence and money in the industry. Now this trio has been going at it for quite some time now. The fact is that the AIDS rate for black women is high. period.

The new data come from the ISIS study (The Women's HIV Seroincidence Study), and reflect an analysis of at-risk women in six urban areas of the United States that have some of the highest rates of HIV/AIDS: Baltimore, Atlanta, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Washington, D.C., Newark and New York City.
"This disease is alive and well in this country," said Dr. Carlos Del Rio, principal investigator for the Atlanta area of the study and professor of medicine and infectious disease at Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta. "But this epidemic is the face of the forgotten people."

We need to really add the message of STDs to the conversation of reality shows like this one, if we really want to call it "reality."
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