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Lack of access to health care is partly to blame for skyrocketing HIV rates among gay Black men

  • Written by Deion Scott Hawkins, Assistant Professor of Argumentation & Advocacy, Emerson College
imageA man takes a free HIV test during the Harlem Pride parade in New York City.Kena Betancur/AFP via Getty Images)

Over the past 20 years, people living with HIV in the United States have seen a drastic improvement in their overall quality of life. But the medical achievements that have made those lives better and created longer life expectancies have...

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