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WHEN THE HIV crisis first began in the early 1980s, gay and bisexual men were among the populations most heavily affected. But within just a few years, research revealed that the Black community was also being disproportionately affected by the virus.
By the end of 1986, statistics showed that Black Americans of all sexual orientations—despite making up just 12 percent of the population—accounted for 25 percent of all adults with HIV in the U.S. Two years later, the number of new diagnoses among Black Americans exceeded those of all other ethnicities, including…
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