I think we can very safely call DC "Kinshasa on the Potomac." Now I've opined this before, how DC is a backward city but...well, more depressing news: 80% of all HIV cases identified from 2001-2006 were African-Americans; DC has the HIV highest rate of any US city (almost twice that of NYC). And, until federal funding requirements mandated HIV tracking in 2000, the city just didn't bother.
Hmmm...maybe it's a matter of too few men snapping on the latex and too few females demanding it. The saddest part is that babies, who have no choice in the matter are being born with it. What a legacy.
The part about not tracking HIV incidence until 2000 is just par for the course for DC "government."
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It is the fact that they did not even track HIV rates until forced to that really shows how little the government of DC cares about fulling its duty to the citizens. Government officials behave much like those in the more dysfunctional parts of the world, seeing government service not as a civic calling but rather as an opportunity for graft and self-aggrandizement.
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