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Poseis entertaining as hell, but it also wants to educate the children.
In season two, which jumps from 1988 to 1990,Posedigs far beyond period escapism and history lessons.
Annual deaths, for one, nearly tripled between 1988 and 1990 from about 5,000 to over 14,000.
The community was being eviscerated by HIV, and the government just wasnt stepping in to provide any resources.
There were no allies at the time.
It really was just the community out there on the front lines by themselves.
It seemed like we owed it to history.
We wanted to uncover once and for all the truth of our history and of our communitys history.
HIV/AIDS treatment was available at the time but only to a limited few.
As is often the case, its accessibility ran disproportionately along lines of class, race, and gender.
With a $10,000 annual price tag, AZT simply isnt a financial reality forPoses protagonists.
This was often the only means to an end for women like Blanca.
Its even part of President Trumpsplanto contain HIV by 2030.
I think he just wants to take the credit in the case that a cure comes along.)
Thats in addition to access programs and copay-assistance initiatives.
Butthe fact remainsthat the companys efforts are reaching only one-fifth of the 1.1 million high-risk Americans today.
Racial minorities and trans women continue to be at a higher risk of contracting HIV.
So what can be done?
Lady J sees such accessibility issues as a continuation of what we saw in 1990, now re-created onPose.
But after taking a pause, she says there are still some gray areas.
I see that Gilead does a lot of good within the community.
I think it is important for any sort of life-saving method to not be owned by one company.
The first place that I go to is just who has access to the resources?
How are we supporting these young people?
Hopefully, were reminding people that youre critically important to this discourse in this day and age.
