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anaged. We’ll discuss issues tied to systematic racial discrimination, such as low income and poverty, lack of access to adequate health care, limited HIV testing and education and stigma attached to the virus. We’ll meet heroic social workers and researchers struggling to bring HIV+ the care they need, as well as HIV+ men who are speaking out about their disease in hopes of changing the stigmas attached to it. HIV diagnoses in the United States have generally plummeted since the 1980’s, and treatment strategies are now so effective that some are beginning to talk about the end of the AIDS epidemic. However, for gay black men in America, the chances of getting HIV in a lifetime are still one in two. In some Southern states, the rates of infection for black men who have sex with men rival rates in underdeveloped countries like Botswana. Once diagnosed with HIV, these men are unable to access the medicine, clinical resources and psychological support they need to keep life ­threatening AIDS diagnoses at bay. WATCH NEXT: Hepatitis Country: Inside America's Opioid-Fueled Epidemic - http://bit.ly/2gKRNAo MORE ON TONIC: https://tonic.vice.com Check out TONIC'S full video catalog: https://video.vice.com/en_us/channel/tonic More videos from the VICE network: https://www.fb.com/vicevideo Like TONIC on Facebook: http://bit.ly/2fJQsIE Follow TONIC on Twitter: http://bit.ly/2gBfCGZ Read TONIC on Tumblr: http://bit.ly/2gpud9j Follow TONIC on Instagram: http://bit.ly/2gcbJLO Sign up for the TONIC Newsletter: http://bit.ly/2gBfOGg