aidsmap news story
At AIDS 2026, a special session was devoted to racism as a driver of HIV outcomes.
Globally, HIV disproportionately impacts Black, Brown and Indigenous communities, who have inequitable access to prevention and treatment and higher rates of death from AIDS-related complications when compared to White people. This has been the case since the beginning of the epidemic and has persisted over four decades of new treatments, prevention modalities and innovations in care.
“Racism is a structural organisation of power in our society,” panellist Thiago Jerohan Albuquerque da Cruz, Project Advisor at Gestos in Recife, Brazil, said.
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