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Science needs to overcome “structural racism” to end the HIV epidemic – Open Access Government

A new report published in The Lancet investigates why 43% of HIV deaths in 2018 happened in the Black community, with policy solutions

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Across the world, around 1.7 million people became newly infected with HIV in 2019. This number does not include the cases that are never registered or documented. The HIV epidemic continues insidiously, despite the existence of medicines that can save lives.
The HIV epidemic is still happening in 2021
As COVID-19 highlights healthcare inequalities via who is getting the vaccine first, and who the virus is killing in disproportionate numbers, it is difficult not to think back to the peak of the…

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