According to The Root:
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that African Americans represent more than one-third (40 percent) of all people living with HIV (pdf) and almost half (45 percent in 2015) of all people with newly diagnosed infections. Black gay and bisexual men are the most affected, followed by black heterosexual women.
So minorities are vastly overrepresented among those at risk.
A running theme for decriminalizing is that the law mostly targets sex workers.. There's plenty of other excuses given, like effectiveness of the law, or how many other diseases only net you a misdemeanor, like knowingly transmitting tuborculosis.
Fair enough, good reasons. But you can really justify any reasons.. A bill can be "anti immigration" or "anti human trafficking", depending on how they present it.
What I'm wondering is, what's the real motivation behind this. What's at stake, and who benefits? Because minorities sure won't benefit either way.
Somehow, this is probably about money.. Like everything. *sigh*