News 2012
Reaching the Mountaintop
One of the ways I celebrated the Martin Luther King, Jr., holiday was by seeing Samuel Jackson and Angela Bassett in The Mountaintop. It is a very interesting piece of theater and an interesting idea: It's about Dr. Martin Luther King's last night on earth.
Yvette Nicole Brown: Building Community
One in a weekly 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.
One Size Does Not Fit All: USCA Town Hall Meeting Focuses on Black Gay and Bi Men
The soaring number of seroconversions among young Black MSM was among the key topics of discussion during a town hall meeting about Black gay and bisexual men and HIV held at the 2011 U.S. Conference on AIDS in Chicago in November.
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A Conversation With PACHA Chair Nancy Mahon
On December 1, 2011, Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius announced the appointment of Nancy Mahon, Senior Vice President of MAC Cosmetics and Executive Director of the MAC AIDS Fund, to chair the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA).
The Affordable Care Act and People Living With HIV/AIDS
One of the questions I get frequently is “how is the Affordable Care Act (the health care law of 2010) helping people living with HIV/AIDS?” The short answer is: in many ways. The detailed answer is more complex, but also much more exciting.
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