News 2013
From Misery to Ministry: Leroy Smith
One in a series of profiles of the 2013 Fellows in the Black AIDS Institute's African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College.Today 53-year old Leroy Smith Jr. is the founder and senior pastor of More Than Conquerors Outreach Ministries Church in Miami. But this man of God was in a very different world more than 25 years ago.
Marketplace Plans Vary Widely In Costs, Within Counties And Across The Country
Consumers shopping in the new health insurance marketplaces will face a bewildering array of competing plans in some counties and sparse options in other places, with people in some areas of the country having to pay much more for the identical level of coverage than consumers elsewhere.
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Book Release: Reflections on Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic
Structural Intimacies: Sexual Stories in the Black AIDS Epidemic (Rutgers University Press, 2013) is a new book from Dr. Sonja Mackenzie addressing the continuing HIV epidemic in the Black population as one of the most pressing issues in contemporary American life. In order to begin to address the question of why rates of HIV infection among African-Americans are reaching levels near or greater than some unindustrialized countries, one must be ready to engage issues of equity and social justice.
Taking Advantage of Teaching Moments
According to a report in the American Independent, in late August Georgia Southern University issued a campus-wide alert, warning students of an HIV-positive "African American male" in his "mid-thirties" or "mid-twenties" who might be "a world traveler" or from "smaller towns", who sometimes wears glasses and or facial hair who may be "intentionally infecting his sex partners".
Doing This Work the Way I Wanted To: Damone Thomas
One in a series of profiles of the 2013 Fellows in the Black AIDS Institute's African American HIV University's Science and Treatment College.
The Caribbean region has the world's second-highest rate of HIV infection. USAID/Jamaica estimates that 32,000 people in Jamaica, a nation of 2.8 million, are living with HIV, and as many as 50 percent are unaware of their status.
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