Political and Legislative
Biden Names Racism as a Systemic Health Threat
Wednesday marked World AIDS Day and President Biden unveiled a new national strategy to fight and end the epidemic by 2030.
The president held a press conference and said an estimated 36 million people, including 700,000 in the U.S., have died from AIDS-related illnesses. Biden pledged to address the deadly virus by establishing a national HIV/AIDS strategy, with a goal to end the epidemic by 2030.
A new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that while there was an overall decrease in the number of reported HIV cases from 2010 to 2019, that decrease was driven mostly by white, gay men. Black and Hispanic gay men did not experience a similar rate of decline.
