[lbo-talk] AIDS, Race, and Class

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

AIDS activism such as that of GMHC, ACT UP, etc. has changed the lives
of the richer half of white gay men for the better, but it doesn't
work as a solution for poorer men and women, especially poorer people
of color, and statistics shows it:

"African Americans represent about 12.5 percent of the U.S.
population, but have disproportionately high rates of HIV/AIDS
infection (Figure 1). Among black men, the annual rate of infection
between 2000 and 2003 was 100 per 100,000, compared to fewer than 15
among non-Hispanic white men. Among black women, the rate of infection
(55 per 100,000) was 19 times that among white women, and the numbers
carrying the infection were much larger. Rates of infection show
little sign of slackening. Blacks accounted for 49 percent of all
HIV/AIDS cases diagnosed in 2005"
("New Perspectives on the Social and Economic Contexts of HIV/AIDS
Infection," Focus Vol. 24, No. 3, Fall-Winter 2006,
<http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc243f.pdf>).
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Yoshie
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