Activists seek changes to health department’s monkeypox messaging and vaccination rollout

Members of Black and Latinx Community Control of Health (BLCC) and ACT UP Philadelphia met last week with staffers from the Philadelphia Department of Public Health to talk about the messaging around monkeypox and the need for the vaccine for people of color and other marginalized communities. 

“We drove home the need to change the public narrative focused on the LGBTQ community and the need to reach Latinx communities in both Spanish and English,” said José de Marco, ACT UP organizer and founder of BLCC.

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