The Massachusetts Department of Public Health has announced that the leading cause of death for black women in Massachusetts is HIV/AIDS

Women account for more than 1 in 4 of all new HIV/AIDS cases in the state, according to the public health department. More than half of the cases are African-American women. Additionally, black women are thirty-eight times more likely than white women to contract the disease. A lot of African-American women don't really know what their partners are doing or that their partners are keeping certain aspects of their life shielded from them. The leading cause of HIV infection among white women was injection drug use.