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- <text id=93TT0942>
- <title>
- Jan. 25, 1993: Fighting on Two Fronts
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Jan. 25, 1993 Stand and Deliver: Bill Clinton
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- SOCIETY, Page 23
- Fighting on Two Fronts
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>New report says race must be an issue in combatting AIDS
- </p>
- <p> America was infected with the virus of racial inequality long
- before the appearance of HIV; now a new study contends that a
- symbiotic relationship between the two afflictions is having
- deadly results. Noting that blacks and Hispanics make up 46% of
- all the AIDS cases in the U.S., the National Commission on AIDS
- report argues that the disease should be treated as a racial
- issue. "Racial inequality in the U.S.," it reads in part, "is
- pre-eminent among the festering social problems...upon
- which the epidemic feeds." The results of inequality include
- poor health care, inferior education and, for some, a collapse
- into injection drug use--all of which help AIDS to spread.
- The commission's solutions: more community-based health
- services and greater minority inclusion in the testing of new
- treatments. The study warned, "For these communities,
- disproportionate representation raises the fear that they will
- be saddled with the disease--blamed for it, stigmatized by it
- and left to deal with it on their own."
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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