News 2015
Black AIDS Institute Marks National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day By Conducting Town Hall Meetings to Discuss Shocking Findings of HIV Workforce Knowledge Study
Getting tested on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
On Friday, February 6th, Monday February 9th, and Wednesday, February 11th, the Black AIDS Institute will launch the #KnowBetterDoBetter Tour, a series of town hall meetings to discuss the shocking results of the recent "U.S. HIV Workforce Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Survey," the largest survey ever conducted of non-medical personnel working in HIV/AIDS in the United States.
NAESM 2015 Sets Forth Social Justice Agenda
Ayana Elliott, Michael David Battle and Valerie Spencer at the workshop panel "Engaging Black Transgender Communities in Biomedical HIV Prevention" at the 2015 National African American MSM Leadership Conference on HIV/AIDS and other Health Disparities. The workshop was presented by the Microbicide Trials Network.
The National AIDS & Education Services for Minorities (NAESM) held its 13th annual gathering, NAESM 2015, Jan. 15-18, 2015, in Atlanta. The NAESM Leadership Conference is the only national conference planned by Black gay men to highlight emerging social, political, structural and behavioral trends that impact Black communities. Health educators, advocates, policymakers, researchers and PLWHA come together to spotlight the need to improve Black gay men's health, including preventing HIV.
In This Issue
If you are in the market for health insurance, there are only 19 days left until the marketplace closes at Healthcare.gov. Earlier this month Black gay men from all across the United States gathered for the National AIDS & Education Services for Minorities (NAESM) conference in Atlanta. Gerald Garth reports.
How Obamacare Went South In Mississippi, Part 5: A Devastating Blow
From left, Kristian Weatherspoon, Jarvis Dortsch and Roy Mitchell of the Mississippi Health Advocacy Program. The group was passed over for a navigator grant despite being a key player in the now-defunct state exchange
In the country's unhealthiest state, the failure of Obamacare is a group effort. Click here to read Part 4.
The most churched stretch of land in the nation might just be the country road in northwestern Mississippi between Hernando's city hall and the town of Coldwater. Small chapels are spaced every few hundred yards, it seems—modest buildings set amid the trees, some with bulletin boards offering plucky encouragement from the Almighty. Mississippi's churches reflect the state's small town living and racial partitions; locals worship in their own communities and those communities remain segregated. The National Baptist churches here are, in practice, all black; the Southern Baptists all white.
Read more: How Obamacare Went South In Mississippi, Part 5: A Devastating Blow
Implementing the Viral Hepatitis Action Plan: The Role of Community Leadership
Isha Weerasinghe, M.Sc., Senior Policy Analyst, Association of Asian Pacific Community Health Organizations and Kate Moraras, MPH, Director, Hep B United, Hepatitis B Foundation
The development of the updated national Action Plan for the Prevention, Care, & Treatment of Viral Hepatitis: 2014-2016 (Action Plan) in April 2014 marked a new opportunity for community-based organizations invested in eliminating hepatitis B and C disparities, to explore what activities federal agencies are planning to undertake and how the organizations and agencies can work together to address viral hepatitis. The Action Plan notes that further engaging the energy and expertise of new partners from both inside and outside of government is critical for successful implementation.
Read more: Implementing the Viral Hepatitis Action Plan: The Role of Community Leadership