In her vital signs piece, Dazon Dixion typified the NBWHP's approach to HIV/AIDS by stating that AIDS "has magnified all the social, political, health and economic problems that have plagued" Black people. The NWBHP understood that in many Black communities that AIDS was part of a larger picture of community survival rather than AIDS being an isolated priority the way it was for many white AIDS activist organizations. The NBWHP named that medical racism, healthcare access, reproductive justice, and the prison industrial complex are political issues in Black communities that intersect with the spread of HIV/AIDS.