News 2012
I Have Photo ID, Therefore I Am
When Laila Stones sent a letter to the Commonwealth of Virginia requesting a copy of her birth certificate, the response was jarring: “They say I don’t exist,” she recounts under oath.
Stones needs her birth certificate so that she can obtain a photo identification card and thereby vote in November. She’s a witness against the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, where she now lives, in a lawsuit filed by civil rights groups to block the state’s voter ID law.
What We Need to Do After AIDS 2012
What We Need to Do After AIDS 2012
All the speeches have been delivered, the presentations finished, the media stories written and filed, the promises made and the delegates have returned home. The 19th International AIDS Conference is officially over.
Orlando Jones: Actor, Comedian, Activist
One in a series about the Black AIDS Institute's Greater Than AIDS ambassadors, who are using their VIP status in Black America to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS and HIV testing and treatment.
All but Forgotten: Middle-Aged, Older Black Women at Risk for HIV
Nell Davis never expected to be in the national spotlight at 64 years old. The California mother and grandmother never expected to be diagnosed with HIV, either. But she has become one of the new faces of HIV by being featured in the Frontline documentary Endgame on PBS and participating in several panels at AIDS 2012, the International AIDS Conference.
Read more: All but Forgotten: Middle-Aged, Older Black Women at Risk for HIV
Conversations from AIDS 2012: Ron Valdiserri and Terrance Moore on Addressing HIV Disparities Among Black Gay & Bisexual Men
Editor’s Note: We had opportunities to catch up with so many great partners on so many important issues while at the XIX International Conference on AIDS (AIDS 2012) last week, we’ll continue bringing you interviews this week and next.