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.@BronxInk highlights how barber shops and churches are part of the fight against #HIV/#AIDS in the Bronx, where HIV mortality rates are highest among the five boroughs and residents are disproportionately Black and Latino.

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@BronxInk Beauty salons and barber shops have been part of the fight against AIDS in Black America since the 1980s. South Carolina salon owner DiAna DiAna began doing AIDS education with her friend @GaddistDr in 1986.

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@BronxInk @GaddistDr More recently, @AIDSAlabama started #BeautyinKnowing to train stylists to serve as AIDS educators—barbers and stylists are trusted by clients, and salons and barber shops are places where frank conversations about sexual health can take place.

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