News 2016
In This Issue
This week we continue with Part Two of our roundtable discussion about the Black AIDS Institute's Cuban delegation, focusing here on Cuba's approach to treating HIV/AIDS as well as LGBT health and stigma on the island.
We'll Always Have Cuba, Part 2
Steve Wakefield, Director, External Relations, HIV Vaccine Trials Network
The second installment of a round-table discussion with four members of the Black AIDS Institute's Cuban delegation. Go here to read Part 1.
Hail and Farewell from Doug Brooks
Douglas M. Brooks, MSW, Former Director of the Office of National AIDS Policy
Dear Colleagues,
BTAN L.A. PrEP Summit to Provide Latest Insights about HIV/AIDS among Los Angeles Residents
The FAME Corporations building, the location of the upcoming Los Angeles PrEP Summit, houses a number of community programs. It was originally the social justice outreach of the legendary First AME Church
The Los Angeles chapter of the Black Treatment Advocates Network (BTAN) along with the FAME Corporations will host the LA Prep Summit to address the underutilization of PrEP in Black communities and present information on the latest biomedical advances in preventing the disease.
"Keep Going": AAHU Grad Brandon Harrison Reflects Upon CROI
Brandon Harrison, an AAHU graduate and currently Project Manager at Primary Care Development Corporation
On February 23, 2016, at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released new data that suggests the lifetime risk of HIV diagnoses in all Americans is 1 in 78.
Read more: “Keep Going”: AAHU Grad Brandon Harrison Reflects Upon CROI