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<span style=”font-weight: 400;”>“America’s Hidden HIV Epidemic” by Linda Villarosa goes along on a drive with Cedric Sturdevant, a project coordinator, where he goes to help patients with HIV/AIDS. They go around and visit different patients who he considers like his children, L.G.B.T. members with low incomes and of color to provide them aid to fight their battle. Sturdevant himself is a patient who battles the fight and feels like ‘his children” should obtain the same support he felt when he was struggling to come out with his struggle of having HIV/AIDS while being part of the African American community. </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>The New York Times is an online article that informs people on a daily basis of issues of society today. </span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>Villarosa, a journalist and director of the program at City College, uses a cautionary tone to inform the audience of the effects of HIV/AIDS and how people can prevent it. As her purpose is to have “</span><span style=”font-weight: 400;”>more of a voice and a standing in H.I.V./AIDS advocacy organizations, and access to the cultural and financial power of the L.G.B.T. community that would rise up to demand government action”(Villarosa). Leading a greater help to the community and making it a simple direct formal article with examples of patients who are undergoing this disease. While it focuses on ways to decrease the rate of HIV/AIDS patients when she shows organizations that help communities. When her stance is that more people should be informed to prevent HIV/AIDS with the help organizations to offer resources among minorities to lower the rate of patients. </span>