In the article “Perceived Everyday Racism, Residential Segregation, and HIV Testing Among Patients at a Sexually Transmitted Disease Clinic,” it is identified that a key to targeting those with the HIV virus in order to get them tested can be approached using a racial method. Those who are of African American persuasion are of the largely targeted audience. Many of those diagnosed in this African American population refuse to get tested and therefore refuse treatment. Some refuse testing due to the concept that avoidance is expected to correlate into health and not contracting the virus. This creates the thought avoidance of the contraction of the HIV virus is possible if the individual avoids testing. Many of these refusal patients may be aiding to the spread of the virus as well because they are not taking precautions similar to their behavior before contracting the virus. This article was a scientific study on the thoughts of certain populations towards the testing of HIV as well as the treatment for those involved and affected. This article not only focuses on HIV and its testing, but general STD testing. Many of those who are to be tested do not want to fall under to stereotype of being an African American that has contracted HIV. The author states that “negative attitudes toward HIV prevention are linked to racism” because of this given stereotype and or racist approach on testing. It is not only significant that racism is involved with testing but also with the treatment of the virus. Many believe that “the government is … using AIDS as a way of killing off minority groups,” and therefore those of minorities do not want to get tested as well as treated because of this theory. The independent mind sets are found in those groups of certain ethnicities due to their lack of respect on the issues of STDs and HIV testing as well as the treatment of these diseases.