In last night’s Democratic debate at Howard University, the issue of HIV/AIDS came up.
Via the NYT: “Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York drew loud applause when she denounced the White House for its response to the AIDS epidemic in black America, moments after Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico complimented Mr. Bush’s effort to finance a campaign to curb H.I.V. infection in Africa. ‘You know, it is hard to disagree with anything that has been said, but let me just put this in perspective,’ Mrs. Clinton said. ‘If H.I.V./AIDS were the leading cause of death of white women between the ages of 25 and 34, there would be an outraged outcry in this country. If we don’t begin to take it seriously and address it the way we did back in the ‘90s, when it was primarily a gay men’s disease,’ Mrs. Clinton said, ‘we will never get the services and the public education that we need.'”
Clinton’s answer was followed by the Biden/Obama exchange above.
Third Democratic Primary Pressidential Debate [transcript]
