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Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2026 9:12 am
In the early days of the AIDS crisis, there were no treatments for people with HIV and no pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a prescription-based daily pill or an injection that people not living with HIV can take to prevent HIV infection, to prevent its spread. On top of it all, institutional racism in the realm of public health often left Black patients out.
Source: https://www.advocate.com/health/hiv/bla ... ids-crisis