An AIDS 2012 Takeaway: More Poor, Criminalized and Marginalized Folks Belong at the Table

Perhaps I’m biased here, but of the thousands of words I’ve read about this year’s International AIDS Conference in D.C., I found my colleague Jamilah King’s the most profound. She went down to this massive, biannual meeting of top researchers, politicians, activists, advocates and people living with HIV/AIDS to learn why black men who have sex with men and heterosexual black women—the two U.S. groups at highest risk of HIV infection—“take the risks we do in bed.”

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Hospitals Look To Become Insurers, As Well As Providers Of Care

Michael Dowling, a burly Ireland native running one of New York’s largest hospital networks, is preparing to turn his business model on its head: He wants to keep his hospital beds empty, rather than full.

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Join Us at Post-AIDS 2012 Community Updates in Birmingham and Chicago

The Black Treatment Advocates Network will conduct a series of two-day post-conference hubs in Black communities with high HIV burdens, nationwide. Combining video-taped sessions from AIDS 2012 with live speakers, presentations, capacity-building activities and discussions, the hubs will advance the local HIV/AIDS response, disseminate the science shared at AIDS 2012 and showcase emerging community leaders in local communities.

Look for us in Birmingham and Chicago on Thursday and Friday, September 6-7. To sign up and for more information, see below.

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How to Create an AIDS-Free Generation of Black Youth

As we work to achieve an AIDS-free generation, advocating for young people must be central to our work -- a subject that we need to place top of mind during this back-to-school season.

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