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Barack Obama: We often speak about AIDS as if it's going on somewhere else.

On the recordOctober 29, 2009
We often speak about AIDS as if it's going on somewhere else.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

Editor's note · Context

Remarks on Signing the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Treatment Extension Act of 2009

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