Empowering Women to End HIV & Intimate Partner Violence
A group discussion on women living with HIV who have had experience with, and received services related to, intimate partner violence.
HIV activist Gina Brown never looked at herself as a victim of intimate partner violence.
"I just thought I was a chick who got beat up sometimes."
Read more: Empowering Women to End HIV & Intimate Partner Violence
In This Issue
A new report from CDC confirms what many of us already know—that Black people living with HIV are less likely than Whites or Latinos to receive appropriate care and treatment, with Black males least likely to be in treatment. These findings underscore the reasons the Black AIDS Institute is strengthening BTAN chapters, holding PrEP Summits (see Events) and engaging in many many other activities to end the epidemic in Black communities. They're why we believe it is important to remind people that Black Lives Matter.
Despite Progress, Persistent Disparities Prolong HIV Epidemic among African Americans
New CDC reports illustrates disparities in HIV care
African Americans living with HIV are less likely than white or Latino Americans to receive consistent, ongoing medical care, according to a new Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report published last week in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). Despite the promising sign of declining HIV diagnoses over the past decade, these findings demonstrate yet another persistent disparity that prolongs the epidemic among African Americans.
Read more: Despite Progress, Persistent Disparities Prolong HIV Epidemic among African Americans
Despite Kvetching, Most Consumers Satisfied With Health Plans: Poll
Doctor greets patient
Bashing insurance companies may be a popular pastime, but a recent poll found most people were satisfied with their choices of doctors and even thought the cost of their health coverage was reasonable.
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HIV Can Persist in Body Despite Drug Therapy
Tracking the virus
Even when blood tests of HIV patients on antiretroviral drugs show no sign of the AIDS-causing virus, it can still be replicating in lymphoid tissue, researchers report.