Outfest Celebrates Diversity with Black AIDS Institute
"The DL Chronicles" returns as part of the "Chadwick Journals" at Outfest.
LOS ANGELES, Calif.-- The Black AIDS Institute will partner with the Outfest Los Angeles LGBT film festival. Taking place between July 7-17, 2016, Outfest builds bridges between audiences, filmmakers and the entertainment industry through the exhibition of high-quality gay, lesbian, bisexual, queer and transgender themed films and videos.
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In This Issue
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Black AIDS Institute to Lead BTAN and Media Delegations to AIDS 2016
Durban International Convention Centre, the site of AIDS2016
Next month, two delegations representing the Black AIDS Institute (BAI) will travel to the International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2016) in Durban, South Africa. The Black Treatment Advocate Network (BTAN) delegates will attend a wide variety of conference sessions with the goal of transferring knowledge back to Blacks in the U.S. The Black Media Delegation will report on the conference, creating content for Black newspapers, radio, websites and other entities to run as original content and repurpose. The Institute's AIDS 2016-related activities are as follow.
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HIV Infection Seems to Affect Nervous System
The nervous system
Many newly infected HIV patients experience neurological problems, but they tend to be mild and they subside after antiretroviral drugs are given, a new study finds.
Post-Pulse Massacre, Moving Forward Means Rejecting Scarcity and Fear
Yasmin Ahmed, a co-founding member of the Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity
Yas Ahmed of Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity reflects on post-Pulse Islamophobia, the power of community and what it is to be a "queer, Muslim, gender non-conforming, Arab, mixed-race, able-bodied person of color" today.
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