By Alabama Public Radio
Huntsville, AL – A North Carolina study recently showed there is an increasing number of HIV infections among black male college students. So officials at Alabama's historically black college say they're now discussing the disease more openly. Mary Morris Billings is the director of Alabama A and M University's counseling and development office in Huntsville. Billings says she knows HIV is here and not going away. And she says she's afraid there will be an outbreak on the A and M campus like there was in North Carolina. That state started a method of detecting early infections in 2002 for everyone who voluntarily got tested at public clinics.