Dr. Mathews talks about what DaBaby got wrong about HIV and how we should combat stigma.

“His comments are not the first time DaBaby has stigmatized people living with HIV. In a recent music video he replaces certain misogynistic words with the word AIDS. He uses a funeral scene in a Black church to antagonize a Black police officer through hyper-masculine posturing. This video illustrates a multi-layered problem of pain within our Black communities that uses Black women and our LGBTQ siblings as punching bags. Most tragically, these choices are killing Black people by perpetuating toxic levels of HIV stigma.”