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For today's 1 o'clock fight will look into a very real, very important fight people are having out in the real world: how to fight and prevent the spread of HIV and AIDS.

The excellent folks at The Chicago Reporter have just published a slate of stories about HIV and AIDS in the black community in Chicago and the surrounding suburbs, and have come to the following conclusions.

   1. Money for HIV prevention in Illinois doesn’t go to the communities that need it most:  Black communities account for more than half of all new HIV cases but get less than a third of the money for prevention programs   2. Promising, innovative program are often choked off by political/bureaucratic issues.   3. It's really hard to treat people who live in the suburbs effectively. Jeff Kelly Lowenstein and Kelly Rivera, reporters from The Reporter, will join us to talk about these stories. Here's what we want to hear from you.

Are these funding problems the result of institutional racism, or just the unfortunate consequences of a huge bureaucracy?

Is homophobia in the black community one reason why it's so hard to treat and prevent the spread of HIV among black men "who have sex with men"?Sound off and stay tuned!