African Hope Committee holds immigrants health forum.

This article focuses on a health forum for African immigrants and other "minorities of color," titled African Women/Children & HIV Health Summit. The U.S. immigrant population is steadily on the rise and is estimated to be about one third of the United States's overall population by the year 2005. The U.S. Census 2000, researched by scholar Jill Wilson of the Migration Policy Institute, reveals that New York City now has the largest African population in the country and is still growing. The summit emphasized on the disproportionate percentage of African American women and children afflicted with the deadly virus and disease worldwide. The highly informative but sobering health summit ended on an upbeat note.