News 2017
Rep. Barbara Lee and Black AIDS Institute Host Forum on Fighting HIV/AIDS in the Trump Era
Rev. Edwin Sanders, Senior Servant and Founder, Metropolitan Interdenominational Church, makes a point at the "Faith Communities in the Global HIV Fight" panel at CBCF's Annual Legislative Conference
HIV/AIDS advocates, educators and faith-based leaders weighed in on the current fight against HIV/AIDS in the Trump era during a health forum at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation Annual Legislative Conference, which was held Sept. 20-24, 2017, in Washington, D.C. Phill Wilson, the president and CEO of the Black AIDS Institute, moderated the forum, which was presented by Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.).
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HIV.gov highlights BAI for powerful use of Instagram
Every month, 700 million people around the world sign in to Instagram and 80% of them follow at least one business or organization. These data make Instagram one more reason our mobile phones have become an incredibly powerful tool for reaching, informing, and motivating people with HIV messages.
Study: PLWH Who Smoke Up to 13 Times More Likely to Die from Lung Cancer than AIDS
As HIV treatments advance, smokers living with HIV are more likely to die from lung cancer than AIDS.
A new modeling analysis looking at the risk of lung cancer death due to smoking for a person living with HIV concluded that "for people living with HIV who adhere to antiretroviral therapy (ART), smoking is a much greater threat to their health than HIV itself."
Read more: Study: PLWH Who Smoke Up to 13 Times More Likely to Die from Lung Cancer than AIDS
President Trump Continues PACHA
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS continues under Trump
In an Executive Order issued on Friday, September 29, 2017, President Donald Trump continued a number of existing advisory committees whose operating authorities were set to expire, including the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA).
In Conversations About Access, Blackness Must Be Centered
Abdul-Aliy Muhammad, a Black queer social-justice activist and member of the Black and Brown Workers Collective in Philadelphia
One in a series of stories written by the 2017 U.S. Conference on AIDS Social Media Fellows.
Read more: In Conversations About Access, Blackness Must Be Centered
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