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Power in numbers

Started by LostInTime, May 24, 2007, 07:31:16 AM

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Metro Weekly
by Yusef Najafi

Lawson emphasized at the meeting that D.C. has the highest rate of HIV in the United States, with an estimated 1 in 50 residents having AIDS and 1 in 20 testing HIV positive.

Ruby Corado, a transgender activist who is HIV positive, echoed Lawson's sentiments when speaking of her own personal experience.

''In the last 15 years, I have seen that people of this city do not have a voice,'' she said. ''The HIV-positive people of Washington, D.C., do not have a [say on] how the money is spent. They have no power, and when you have a crisis and you're trying to come out of the mud, and you have nothing, not even a voice that says 'help,' you got nothing.''

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