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As of 2010, the District of Columbia had the highest rate of African Americans living with HIV in the US. African-American AIDS activists and public health observers frequently compare HIV prevalence in black America to that in sub-Saharan Africa. Such comparisons highlight the virus's devastation of black communities in the United States while flattening important historical differences. NOTE: This graphic reflects 2010 data, and may not be representative of the epidemic today. (Courtesy of PBS NewsHour)

The Other Half Has Never Been Told: AIDS and African-American History

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ, Medicine and the Body, Race and Ethnicity 3 comments

AIDS in black America is not only the result of poverty and inequality, but also reinforces racial inequities by constraining black opportunity.

Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics

Sexual Pleasure, AIDS, and Gay Politics

By Dan Royles 20th and 21st Century United States, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ 1 comment

In the early days of the AIDS epidemic gay men struggled to reconcile 1970s sexual openness with the growing danger of a deadly disease.