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Racism in Healthcare: HIV in the Black (Gay) Community… Do #BLK(Gay)LivesMatter?

Forty years from now, we will still be talking about what happened in Ferguson. It will be mentioned in high school history textbooks. Hollywood studios will make movies about Selma. Politicians will talk about “how far we have come since Ferguson” in the same way they talk about how far we come since Little Rock, Greensboro, or Birmingham. But we haven’t come far, American’s history of black men and women being subjective guinea pigs and experiments for government researches has been a part of the American healthcare systems for years, contributing in biased healthcare reforms and biased government policies and actions. HIV is one of the diseases that the healthcare
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