HIV emergency in Boston's communities of color

AIDS activists from the Black community, led by Rev. Franklyn Hobbs from Healing Our Land Ministry, together with HIV Call to Action, New England, the Inter national Action Center and other supporters will be demanding that a state of emergency be declared in Boston for communities of color being devastated by HIV. A city-wide public hearing in front of a Boston City Council Committee will be held on March 29.

Hobbs initiated this action to respond to the extremely disproportionate impact of HIV on communities of color in Boston, made worse by cutbacks earlier this month in the Ryan White bill that once helped fund medical and social care in the Boston area. The $1.2 million cut from the Boston HIV budget for the current year will affect the direct health care of thousands of people with HIV. This sum represents about six minutes’ worth of funding of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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