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Reauthorize the Ryan White Act

Date: Sept. 27, 2006
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Science Health and Health Care


REAUTHORIZE THE RYAN WHITE ACT -- (House of Representatives - September 27, 2006)

Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, the international war chest of AIDS is black Africa, and in our country it is black America. How did half the cases become African American? Even worse, new cases are overwhelmingly black.

We have seen this disease stereotyped as homosexual and now as black. The one constant is its spread. Yet, unlike many diseases today, AIDS is preventable and can be contained and defeated.

The answers are not complicated, beginning with far more visible and substantive leadership, leadership on testing--I will be tested on the Capitol complex grounds in a D.C. health van this afternoon to set an example to help prevent the epidemic spread of this disease among African Americans--leadership on safe sex and condoms; leadership on overcoming homophobia, which is in league with this disease in the black community; and above all, leadership from the Congress of the United States, which must not go home without reauthorizing the Ryan White Act.

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