Thanks But No Thanks For AIDS Comparison, Say Chagas Disease Experts

Sunday, June 3, 2012 - 03:40 in Health & Medicine

"Chagas Disease: “The New HIV/AIDS of the Americas”" screams the headline of an editorial in the open access journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, written primarily by two principal investigators of a vaccine against Chagas disease - and it has resounded with the same thud among the actual people they think they are helping that gay people got from African-Americans when they tried to compare not being able to get married to institutional slavery for hundreds of years. read more

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