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The virus that causes AIDS, U.N. offi cials say, is infecting more young and adolescent people FBI cont’d from pg 8 run by the Black Panther Party and “disrupt distri- bution of the BPP news- paper.” The documents ex- posed in the 1976 court case also revealed, “mas- sive wiretap overhears, including conversations between BPP members and their attorneys,” Tay- lor wrote. “The FBI denies they are surveilling (sic) our groups like the Black Lives Matter movement, but we told them that we don’t believe it and our information tells us that” those groups are under surveillance, said Rich- mond. Richmond said that the CBC members plan to present information to the FBI detailing surveil- lance and harassment of Black organizers. The FBI director ex- pressed interests in meeting with CBC mem- bers regularly because, “We are the eyes and ears on the ground,” and the CBC off ers diversity that the agency lacks, said Richmond. Bass asked the Black Press to put the call out to their readers to let lawmakers know if they have experienced harass- ment or surveillance, a request that Richmond echoed. Chavis, the president and CEO of the NNPA, committed to working with Richmond and other CBC members to uncover stories of unwarranted government surveil- lance and harassment in the Black community. “People may be more considerate in doing things, if they know that the Black Press will be on their case,” said Leavell, the chairman of the NNPA. “In addition, it certainly shows our strength, if we can have a great impact.” than any other age group. Egypt, home to some 95 million people, ranks behind only Iran, Sudan and Somalia in the Mid- dle East for the rate at which the epidemic is spreading, according to U.N. fi gures. In Egypt, pa- tients are oft en jailed on trumped up charges and ostracized by society. The disease is associated with homosexuality, which is not explicitly illegal but is widely seen as a trans- gression against religion and nature in the conser- vative, Muslim-major- ity country. “There is a 25-30 percent increase in incidents every year... It’s is alarming to us because the growth of the epidemic and the discontinuation of interest from donors in funding,” Ahmed Khamis, of the U.N. AIDS agency, told The Associated Press. Estimates of the number of people liv- ing with HIV in Egypt vary. UNAIDS says there are over 11,000 cases, while the coun- try’s Health Ministry estimates the fi gure to be around 7,000. The rise in the num- ber of new infections, however, is not in dis- pute. AP PHOTO/NARIMAN EL-MOFTY Number of new cases growing by 40 percent per year, with evidence of more cases among youth In this Saturday, Dec. 2, 2017 photo, from left to right UNAIDS country manager Ahmed Khamis, Christian father Boulos Soror, Dr. Walid Kamal, Islamic scholar and Sheik Ali al-Jifri, and Tabah Foundation member Mohammed Shahin, prepare for an even part of the World AIDS Day 2017 national advocacy campaign at a hotel, in Cairo, Egypt. An alarming HIV epidemic is silently spreading in Egypt, with an annual growth of up to 40 percent and funds to deal with the crisis running out by next year, U.N. offi cials and activists say. “Most recently, we’ve been seeing people of a much younger age group infected with the virus. 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