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Texas salon offers cut, color, HIV test?

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    Hair salon owner works to prevent HIV

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Pool and taking out full guns and live all the -- -- -- Exactly every day MO at a hair salon but -- Llewellyn in south oak cliff customers got a style and -- swamp.

Salon owner -- well and talks to her clients about sex usually there saying hey.

I'm going out on the -- tonight I guess -- and again a month.

But how we want to say to them is hey if you've brought on -- -- -- -- -- And is one -- -- stylists in the country working with the Centers for Disease Control on a national initiative to encourage stylist.

To preach using condoms practicing abstinence and other methods of preventing HIV.

I think it could be a little uncomfortable.

Talking about it with just -- in this day.

Dan I guess you can understand where she's coming from and it's candidates debate in the back your mind you know -- against it -- and get tested and.

60% of women living with HIV and Dallas County are African Americans compared to 17%.

White and 13% Hispanic.

As pregnant.

A main reason for the increase.

African American men coming out of prison with HIV and having sex with their women according to the Dallas County Health Department.

-- destroyed lot of people's lives and would be prepared.

The group as well as teaching your kids especially in African American community.

A lot of people still see it as a gay man's disease and unfortunately it is affecting.

African American female heterosexual female at an alarming -- but we can just thought the conversation keep it from being sold to boot.

What other place to do that than in the -- this we have all -- conversations anyway.