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![“We remember the dead and fight like hell for the living.” World AIDS Day is a way to mark the progress we’ve made and mourn the people we’ve lost to this epidemic. Keep loving, keep fighting ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿
Via @actupny: This #WorldAIDSDay we remember the dead and fight like hell for the living. Although we have made strides in the fight to end HIV such as “U=U” aka Undetectable = Untransmittable and PrEP we’ve still got a hell of a lot of work ahead of us until we end the epidemic once and for all.
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Step 1: Revolutionary HIV treatment and prevention mean nothing if they are not free and accessible for all. HIV drug Biktarvy is currently the 10th most expensive drug in the country at a whopping $3,390 thanks to pharmaceutical giant @GileadSciences. We must end pharma greed and we must fight for Medicare for All. #WorldAIDSDay
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Step 2: The criminalization of HIV, drug use, and sex work is poor public health policy and have all spiked new HIV infections. If this country cares about ending the epidemic, we must repeal harmful policies such as SESTA/FOSTA and use decriminalization as a tool for HIV prevention. #DasP = Decriminalization as Prevention #WorldAIDSDay
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Step 3: We can and we must ensure housing for all if we want to see an end to the epidemic. We’re reaching close to 100,000 people experiencing homeless in NYS and the COVID-19 pandemic has only increased that number. We need to demand rent relief, an end to the shelter system, and fight for housing justice for all. #WorldAIDSDay
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Of course the list continues with reinstating PACHA (the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS), expanding PEPFAR, and abolishing ICE, prisons, and policing, but we cannot afford to stop fighting. Will you fight with us? #WorldAIDSDay
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[PICTURED IS MICHAEL KERR, ACT UP NY MEMBER]
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