In This Issue
This week, we continue our series on the Black AIDS Institute's Heroes in the Struggle Gala and Award Celebration awardees. Here, Board first vice chair and actor Vanessa Williams tells us why she is committed to leveraging her celebrity to encourage African Americans to learn more about HIV and AIDS and to encourage more people to get tested.
We are pleased to honor Vanessa at the Heroes in the Struggle Gala and Award Celebration on September 16th in Los Angeles. You can find information about how to purchase tickets, sponsor the event, or participate in other ways, below.
Also in this issue, Tamara Holmes reports on the Institute's Brown Bag Lunch Webinar about the HIV Cure, including updates on the research in to "kick and kill," therapeutic and preventive approaches. A new Kaiser Foundation poll shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans want the Trump Administration to move on from its attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, and make the existing law work.
We run a piece about new CDC research showing that only about one-third of Americans ages 15 to 44 are using condoms—and many of them incorrectly. We also share a story about the emerging research on the relationship between obesity and depression.
Finally, we invite you to join us at the Heroes in the Struggle Gala and Award Celebration, which will take place Sept. 16, 2017, in the Darryl F. Zanuck Theater at 20th Century Fox Studios in Los Angeles. To purchase tickets, become a sponsor, join the host committee or place an advertisement in the program book, click here or contact Wendell Miller at
Yours in the struggle,
Phill