Forty years ago this month the first men began dying of a mysterious disease in California that would later be identified as AIDS. It would go on to claim millions of lives across the world.

Four decades of AIDS: A Timeline

Dedra Spears Johnson was working as a social worker in a suburb of the US capital Washington at the height of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1990s when she concluded Black women's needs weren't being met by efforts to fight the disease.

Forty years on, Black Americans disproportionately hit by HIV

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