Dr. Ragan Johnson featured in HealthCentral

Dr. Ragan Johnson featured in HealthCentral discussing national HIV infection rates in Black woman. 

“There are structural systems like racism and sexism that don’t highlight women and see women as objects of sex and not participants in sex,” says Johnson. In what many saw as a glaring example of gender discrimination, back in 2019, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved Descovy, an HIV prevention drug, for gay males and transwomen. Despite the rapid increase in HIV cases among Black women, the drug was not approved for people who were assigned female at birth. ("The effectiveness in this population has not been evaluated," the FDA said at the time.)

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