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Most Americans do not realize that the city with one of the highest rates of HIV\/AIDS infection in the world is the nation’s capital, Washington DC. In fact, according to the former director of DC’s HIV\/AIDS administration, DC’s infection rate is “on par with Uganda and some parts of Kenya.” A one percent infection rate of any disease in a population is considered an epidemic according to the United Nations. Today, the rate of HIV infection in rate in DC is three percent. A recent study of gay men in Washington DC found that 14% are HIV positive. How did that happen? A new documentary, The Other City, explores the many people struggling, thriving, and organizing to make up for the lack of government programs in Washington DC around HIV\/AIDS. While elected officials, lobbyists, and other elites go about their business in the nation’s capital of the richest, most powerful country in the world, the on-going epidemic in their city has been all but forgotten and ignored. But in The Other City, we meet the residents of Joseph’s House, a hospice for AIDS patients, the Courage to Change Men’s group comprising African American former inmates infected with HIV, a young woman named J’Mia who is a single mother of three struggling to find housing, and a gay Latino man named Jose who does all he can to stem infection rates among immigrant youth. The Other City has been featured as an official selection at the Tribeca, Outfest, and Silverdocs film festivals and opens this Friday in Los Angeles at the Laemmle Music Hall (9036 Wilshire Blvd). <\/p>\n