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My Baby Brother Has AIDS and Now He’s Too Sick to Play with Me anymore, Daddy, Why?, South Carolina AIDS Education Network (SCAEN), 1988

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Black and white drawing of an African American boy crying and half faced away from the viewer

My Baby Brother Has AIDS and Now He’s Too Sick to Play with Me anymore, Daddy, Why?, South Carolina AIDS Education Network (SCAEN), 1988

AIDS could impact every member of a family, including boys and girls, brothers and sisters. Children in black communities have consistently been overrepresented in AIDS cases nationwide. As of 2013, African American children were twice as likely to be diagnosed with HIV than their white peers.
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