In This Issue
Today we report from Day One of the 20th International AIDS Conference in Melbourne, Australia. Read Linda Villarosa's compelling piece on the promise of the "Mississippi Baby"—now a young girl—in spite of the recent disappointment, as well as other research from around the world that's pointing the way to The Cure. Ending the AIDS epidemic requires that civil society be involved. Anne T. Sutton, Ph.D., J.D., the senior international reporter for The Jackson Advocate, reports on the vital role the public must play, particularly with clinical trials.
The Black AIDS Institute's training and evaluation coordinator Rebekah Israel is attending the IAC for the first time. She shares her personal experience of how the African Black Diaspora Global Network and African Diaspora Networking Zone played on Day One in transforming her perspective on the pandemic. Our youth reporter Kali Villarosa covered a session as well as a press conference on youth leadership. She writes about the tension that young AIDS advocates feel as they carve out a space to help lead the charge to make their generation AIDS free. Finally we bring you a newsmaker profile on Yohana Haule, a young Tanzanian artist, who designed the AIDS 2014 logo.
Yours in the struggle,
Phill