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Melissa Gira Grant: Protesting the AIDS Conference

If the US is committed to an AIDS-free generation, why is it excluding some of the most vulnerable communities?

Press Room

July 25, 2012

Even though the White House has pledged itself to working towards an “AIDS-free generation,” its continued criminalization of those who sell sex and use drugs are helping contribute to the HIV epidemic. Nation blogger Melissa Gira Grant speaks with Amy Goodman and Nermeen Shaikh on Democracy Now! about the protests outside of the ongoing International AIDS Conference.

—Max Rivlin-Nadler

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