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Opinion: The view from West Virginia: the end of HIV transmission is a distant dream

Three decades after the first World AIDS Day is not the time to give up the fight, or to forget the role that political will must play in winning it.
An aerial view of Huntington, W.Va.

“End the AIDS epidemic” seems to be the battle cry of the day. It’s a lofty goal that we all hope is attainable. But if West Virginia, where I live and work, is any indication, we have far to go.

Sunday is the first World AIDS Day since in his 2019 State of the Union address a federal initiative to reduce new HIV infections in the United States by 75% in five years and . A plan to end the epidemic shows how far we have come since the first World AIDS Day in 1988, when a call was sent for solidarity against a pandemic that was

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