Racism and AIDS

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This paper explains that HIV/AIDS is a serious and devastating problem for Africans that warrants immediate and decisive international action. It argues that the scale of HIV/AIDS has been exacerbated by racism, both past and present. More specifically, racism from the past plagues the continent today, indirectly, and global inaction is deemed justified because of racial prejudice and discrimination.

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"It is widely known the world is experiencing a pandemic 36.1 million people are affected with HIV/AIDS globally (Berger, 2002). The distribution of those infected, however, is lesser known: "ground zero" of the HIV/AIDS pandemic is located in sub-Saharan Africa. Nearly 75% of the world's HIV/AIDS population is African (Booker, 2003). This disproportionate dispersal of disease is closely tied to a continental history of "oppression and discrimination that people of African descent share" (Booker, 2003) and the continuation of that racism through modern institutional indifference."

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