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• AIDS Healthcare Foundation ’s (AHF) “Just Use It” billboard campaign now is running in three new cities – Miami, Chicago, and New York City – after several national out-of-home advertising companies refused the artwork back in August.
• This billboard in Miami is at NW 22nd Ave & NW 28th St (until 12/24/23).
• It’s just a piece of fruit,” said Michael Weinstein, AHF president and cofounder.
• “We may be moralistic in attitude, but the rising rates of STIs in Florida prove we are hedonistic in behavior.

• This board is at 575 Washington and W. Houston in NYC.
• It’s just a piece of fruit,” said Michael Weinstein, AHF president and cofounder.
• “We may be moralistic in attitude, but the rising rates of STIs in New York prove we are hedonistic in behavior.
• To learn more about AHF, visit us online at AIDShealth.org , find us on Facebook , follow us on Instagram , Twitter , and TikTok , and subscribe to our AHFter Hours podcast.

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• During her treatment, a sample of her cancer cells was taken without her knowledge or consent.
• Henrietta Lacks’ cells, known as HeLa cells, have had a profound impact on medical science since they were first taken from Lacks in 1951.
• Lacks is one of the most well-known examples of medical exploitation on a Black body.

Medical abuse is a part of Black history

• Medical exploitation and intentional abuse of members of the Black community is an often overlooked part of Black history.
• The Tuskegee experiment is one of the most well-known examples of medical exploitation in the Black community.
• But as revealed in medical ethicist Harriet A. Washington’s groundbreaking book “Medical Apartheid,” the medical exploitation of the Black community extended far beyond Tuskegee.

Grave robbing in Black communities

• In turn, more cadavers were needed, but the demand for cadavers far exceeded the supply.
• The solution at the time was grave robbing.
• At the turn of the 18th century, most of New York City’s dissection tables were full of Black bodies, despite members of the Black community’s accounting for only 15% of the population at the time.

Unethical experiments on the incarcerated

• From the 1950s through the 1970s, Philadelphia health officials allowed the prominent researcher Dr. Albert M. Kligman to conduct dangerous experiments on incarcerated people, most of whom were Black.
• Kligman repeatedly and purposely exposed Black men to dermatological, biochemical and pharmaceutical experiments.
• The city of Philadelphia and related institutions officially apologized in October 2022, but the apology does not remedy the lifelong scars and lingering health impacts from the experiments.
• Incarcerated individuals in Arkansas were given a cocktail of drugs, including Ivermectin, to treat COVID-19.

Why it matters

• It is also important to show how racism is still prevalent in contemporary medicine and public health.
• The study further found that nearly half of the medical students in the study believed Black people have less sensitive nerve endings.
• It’s my belief that revealing the dark history of medical racism is key to making sure that past injustices do not recur.