News 2017
In This Issue
This week, we continue our series on the Black AIDS Institute's Heroes in the Struggle Gala and Award Celebration awardees. Here, Board first vice chair and actor Vanessa Williams tells us why she is committed to leveraging her celebrity to encourage African Americans to learn more about HIV and AIDS and to encourage more people to get tested.
Vanessa Williams: Committed to Seeing the HIV/AIDS Epidemic to Its End
Vanessa Williams
The Black AIDS Institute's Heroes in the Struggle Gala and Award Celebration honors, in a star-studded event and photographic tribute, individuals who, over the past year, have made a heroic contribution to the fight against HIV/AIDS. Below, one in a series profiling the 2017 honorees.
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Researchers Continue to Pave the Way for an HIV Cure
Jeff Taylor, a member of the Community Advisory Board of the Care Collaboratory, a National Institutes of Health-funded research center at the University of North Carolina
Today the world is closer to a cure for HIV/AIDS than ever before. But what does that really mean? A Brown Bag Lunch Webinar was held by the Black AIDS Institute in June 2017 to answer that question and give an overview of how close researchers are to putting an end to the HIV/AIDS epidemic once and for all.
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Americans Eager For Leaders To Cooperate To Make Health Law Work
More Trump-supporting Republicans wants current ACA to fail
Move on.
That's what most people say Congress and the Trump administration should do after the Senate failed to approve legislation in July to revamp the Affordable Care Act, according to a survey this month.
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Only About One-Third of Americans Use Condoms: CDC
Jill Rabin, M.D., Women's Health Programs, PCAP Services at Northwell Health, New Hyde Park, N.Y.
Condoms can help prevent pregnancy and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), but only about a third of Americans use them, a new federal report shows.
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