Decades of progress, uniting to fight HIV/AIDS
by Curated December 1, 2024 · Gay News / Gay Pride / Gay Rights / The Advocate
Author: Congresswoman Barbara Lee
World AIDS Day was first observed in 1988, a decade in which the average life expectancy for someone with AIDS was three years after diagnosis. All around the globe, to speak of AIDS was to dread the overwhelming scale of this pandemic. Sheila Fitzgerald/ShutterstockJONATHAN ERNST/AFP via Getty Imagesrepresents California’s 12th congressional district.
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Author: Congresswoman Barbara Lee
