Racism Hindering the End of the HIV epidemic in the US

It has been forty years since HIV/AIDS was declared an epidemic and still, black women bear the highest burden of it among women.

According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black women represent 13 percent of the female population. Yet they account for more than 50 percent of HIV diagnoses. On the other hand, white women represent 62 percent of the female population and yet account for only 21 percent of HIV di....