Health Care

African Americans have a hard time, sometimes, understanding just how dangerous or real HIV/AIDS is. For many, they sometimes do not have the access to the things that are needed to help them take care of themselves. Most poor African Americans, who are homeless, do not even know that they have contracted the virus or know that they are sick. They cannot go to a regular physician, because they do not have insurance or healthcare. In this article, it talks about how there is still new idea to add HIV/AIDS healthcare onto insurance policies; this will help people who are rich, because they can pay for it. 

A antiretroviral medication that can be taken after exposure to HIV/AIDS
Pre-exposure medication that can be taken when there is a higer risk for exposure to the virus

Some, but few know there are different medications that can be taken to help when someone is at a higher risk of contracting HIV/AIDS. There is the Pre-exposure medication, PrEP, which can be taken when someone has a higher chance of being exposed. PrEP is something that must be taken every day for it to work. While there is PEP, which can be taken once someone has already been exposed but not contracted it yet. PEP should be taken only in "emergent" situations; for example, working around drugs or needle sharing.

Lyrics from Lil B song; I Got AIDS

"My life ending early if I don't got no cash to pay
Magic Johnson, only one still alive
Sitting down all alone, it makes me want to cry
I can go back in time, I would've used a condom
Now I'm dying, saying "goodbye" to my momma
Damn"

The rap community looks at Magic Johnson as a leading figure when it comes to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. He is the last man standing when you think of someone in the famous world, who has money, and is living with the virus.

Amidst the recent attacks on access to quality health care and sexual and reproductive health services, the assaults on the lives of racial and sexual minorities specifically reveal the systematic violation reserved for poor women of color, particularly Black and transgender women.

Here, Jallicia Jolly provides some statistical and logical based evidence for proposing that health care and poverty are used as devices to target poor black transgendered women. She mentions Trump's revoking of Obamacare, and the fact that black women in Detroit have made up 91% of all female HIV cases in 2012, stating in conjunction with that fact that Detroit has the highest concentration of poverty in the US.