PrEP Summit in Chicago Sheds Light on the HIV Prevention Pill
BTAN Chicago is stepping up plans for PrEP in the city
As health-care providers and community-based health groups in Chicago continue to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in the Black community, the demand to include pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in their arsenal grows louder.
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Erica Lillquist: Helping People Live Healthier Lives
Erica Lillquist
The Black AIDS Institute's new senior mobilization coordinator, Erica Lillquist, just completed three years of international volunteer work with the Peace Corps. She credits time spent in Ethiopia as an HIV/AIDS community health volunteer with shaping her career path and drawing her to the Institute.
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Leo Moore, MD: Making a Difference In The Struggle
Leo Moore
When Leo Moore, M.D. relocated from New Haven, Conn., to Los Angeles in 2014, he was looking for a way to become involved in the community. It didn't take long for him to hear about a planning meeting to revive the Black Treatment Advocates Network's (BTAN) Los Angeles chapter, so he decided to check it out.
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BTAN Broward County, Fla.: Forging Forward through Strong Partnerships
Patricia Fleurinord and Krystle Knight-Mobley of BTAN Broward
In 2014, Broward County, Fla., reported 993 new cases of HIV, an infection rate surpassed only by Miami-Dade County in the Sunshine State, and underscoring the importance of the county's BTAN chapter. We ask Black Treatment Advocates Network (BTAN) Broward co-chairs Krystle Knight-Mobley and Patricia Fleurinord about the four-year-old organization.
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In This Issue
This week we are launching the first in our quarterly updates on the Black Treatment Advocate's Network (BTAN) chapters. AIDS happen in local communities. People get infected in local communities; people get tested in local communities; people either access treatment or not in local communities; people access prevention services or not in local communities. We can focus as much as we want on national policies and we should. But the real work happens on the ground, and that is the work that BTAN chapters do all over this country. BTAN chapters think globally, and act locally.