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NEW YORK CITY: In an effort to raise the public's awareness of inadequate treatment of women with HIV/MDS, the Ms. Foundation for Women and the Off-Broadway producers of In the Continuum are urging people to sign the foundation's "Address the Neglected Truth" petition, which calls for legislators to make HIV-positive women's needs a priority. The advocacy partnership is especially poignant given that women of color are reported to be the hardest hit in the continuing rise of the infection--a statistic invoked by the two-person play's near-photographic description of the MDS-stricken lives of two pregnant women, one a middle-class African mother and the other an African American from the Los Angeles ghetto.

Ms. Foundation for Women founder Gloria Steinem, center, with In the Continuum's Danai Gurira, left, and Nikkole Salter.

Under the direction of Robert O'Hara, In the Continuum is written and performed by recent acting grads Danai Gurira, who hails from Zimbabwe, and Nikkole Salter, who was reared in L.A. Produced by Primary Stages, in association with the Perry Street Theatre and independent producers Patrick Blake and Cheryl Wiesenfeld, the play comes full circle when it travels to Harare, Zimbabwe this month prior to launching a U.S. tour in late August. The first stop is the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. To sign the Ms. Foundation petition, visit www.ms.foundation.org.