it became fashionable for politicians to support AIDS research and antidiscrimination legislation. However, delivery of services was still hampered. The author offers the example that a proper campaign against AIDS needs open discussion of sexual practices with availability of free condoms; this is thought to be against the ruling class's political needs to control the lives of the working class. A homosexual who does not dare to come out is frightened and diminished. The woman ashamed of abortion is scared and lessened. A woman insisting on condoms is taking control of part of her life and this control might spread to political and working aspects. Sexism and classism appear to control the fight against AIDS.
Racism is viewed as an AIDS issue. The author states that "racist imagination paints a lurid and inaccurate picture of the epidemic in Africa...m
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