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Straight black voices missing in conversation about HIV | Dorchester Reporter

18.2.11

Straight black voices missing in conversation about HIV | Dorchester Reporter: "Since the earliest days of the epidemic, people from all walks of life and HIV statuses have come together to tend to the sick, demand policy changes, fight for easier access to life-saving medicines, and educate the public about how HIV is transmitted.

But today, 30 years into an epidemic that has taken the lives of 12,492 people in the Commonwealth alone, the villagers are tired. The same populations most vulnerable to HIV infection in 1981 are those most vulnerable today: gay and bisexual men, black Americans, and injection drug users."


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