Community leaders voice concerns about monkeypox at Mazzoni Center press conference

“Jazmyn Henderson, organizer with ACT UP Philadelphia and Black and Latinx Community Control of Health, said at the press conference, ‘this virus is being put out in the media as something that’s only affecting the LGBTQ community, and they’re treating it like an STI. I am a survivor of HIV and I know what that stigma feels like, and how deadly it is to people who look like me. We need to test and treat everybody, vaccinate everybody. This is not a population-specific virus, it’s a human virus.’”

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