Trump Plans to End the AIDS Epidemic. In Places Like Mississippi, Obstacles Are Everywhere. [nytimes.com]

Alicia Doktor 3/18/1912:00 PM

JACKSON, Miss. — “I come from the smallest town in Mississippi, in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” said Gerald Gibson, outreach manager at Open Arms Healthcare Center, the only clinic created to serve gay black men in this state.

“Growing up, I didn’t know anybody like me,” he added. “I come from a culture that says you’re going to hell for being homosexual and AIDS is God’s wrath.”

President Trump’s plan to end America’s epidemic of H.I.V., the virus that causes AIDS, within 10 years is not going to succeed easily in places like this.

[For more on this story by Donald G. McNeil Jr., go to https://www.nytimes.com/2019/0...hiv-aids-blacks.html]

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