News 2014
White House Office of National AIDS Policy Announces Series of Listening Sessions
The White House Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP) announced that it will host a series of regional listening sessions this summer on the implementation of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS). Mr. Douglas Brooks, ONAP's newly appointed Director, will lead the listening sessions, which will be part of a visit to each community that will include site visits to organizations engaged in the community's efforts to improve outcomes along the HIV Care Continuum.
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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Men
One of the missions of the Department of Justice is to ensure safety for all Americans against foreign and domestic threats. But for Black men, the right to safety isn't a given. In fact, recent events suggest that the need for safe spaces for Black men is so great that it is literally a matter of life and death.
15 Years and Counting
Today we mark the 15th anniversary of the founding of The Black AIDS Institute.
In 1999, having survived the first of two near death experiences, I called a few friends and we decided, as Essex Hemphill put it, "to start an organization to save our lives". We had no money, no offices and no real prospects. As my grandmother used to say, we didn't have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of. But we did have an idea: We believed that if we were going to end the AIDS epidemic in Black communities, we had to figure out a way to get Black leaders, institutions, and individuals engaged in the battle in a robust way.
Sons and Mothers Unite to Heal
The idea for the groundbreaking support group Sons and Mothers came to Depressed Black Gay Men (DBGM) President and CEO Antoine Craigwell and a colleague a couple of years after Craigwell contemplated suicide for the second time.
To PrEP or Not to PrEP, That Is The Question
It seems to me that it's only fitting that on the eve of the Black AIDS Institute's 15th anniversary, the CDC has released guidelines for the implementation of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV, or PrEP.