What do Black Americans stand to learn from Black people fighting AIDS around the diaspora?
We can learn so much, for example, from countries in Western Europe, where the AIDS epidemic has not grown like ours. When you look at the infection rate in Washington, D.C., and compare it to HIV infection rates in London, Paris, Copenhagen and other Western European capital cities, we should be totally ashamed. There is also a lot to be learned from Africa, and a lot that we can offer in terms of controlling and ending their epidemic. Letting HIV-positive people from other countries into the U.S. who can present us with HIV interventions that are effective and have been evaluated, [helps us make] a stronger case to [encourage] the CDC to develop and implement similar interventions in the United States. Banning people with such experience and expertise has erected an iron curtain of fear, and it has been deadly. This is especially true for gay men of all colors. I think that we should take every opportunity possible to learn more about access to care and how to stop HIV so that people
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