Donald Trump And HIV: What Do Black And Trans Women Got To Do With It?
“Amidst the disproportionate HIV/AIDS rates in communities of color, the Trump administration’s platform of bigotry coupled with the systematic divestments in the health of people of color, particularly Black women, is appalling.
In the fourth decade of the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, the world faces a striking phenomenon: increasingly high HIV transmission rates among Black women and transgender women of color. In 2015, Black women accounted for 61% of new HIV/AIDS diagnoses among women nationally. Among transgender women, the fastest growing population of HIV-positive people, Black trans remain at a greater risk of HIV infection (56%) compared to their white (17%) and Latino (12%) peers.”