As you get ready to attend the United States Conference on AIDS (http://www.2012USCA.org), here is a potential new model for HIV prevention and care services to be discussed at this year’s meeting. Hopefully, this will be one of many models to review. This model incorporates the recent bio-medical advancements [e.g. Treatment as Prevention (TasP), Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP), […]
Models to End the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in America
Ending the Epidemic: A Question of Leadership
If we are to end the epidemic, we have to ask hard questions. We have to push our leaders to have a big vision. The International AIDS Conference gave us our marching orders: job number one is ending this epidemic. Scientists have given us a pathway. Now it’s up to the community. It’s up to people […]
Committed to a Cure for HIV
In 1992, the San Francisco AIDS Foundation did an amazing campaign called “Be Here For The Cure”. It was a beacon of hope during a very dark time in our epidemic. I’m not sure any of us really believed there would be a cure, but we needed to hold on to something while the world was falling apart around […]
Ending the Epidemic: The Summit to End AIDS in America
The take home message from the International AIDS Conference was clear: We Can End The AIDS Epidemic. Now it’s up to us to take that rhetoric and make it a reality. Register today for this year’s We are particularly committed to bring People Living with HIV/AIDS(PLWHA) to this year’s Summit. PLWHAs who are executive directors, senior staff […]
Washington Post AIDS in America Forum Shines Light on the “Invisible Epidemic” of HIV/AIDS
On Tuesday, July 24th, The Washington Post, along with the Ford Foundation and the Kaiser Family Foundation held a half-day forum titled “AIDS in America: The Invisible Epidemic.” Timed to coincide with the International AIDS Conference, the forum was an important opportunity to examine and identify strategies to slow the rate of infection – especially […]
Latino Caribbean Diaspora Collective: Creating A Network For A Future Without HIV/AIDS
This past Sunday, July 22, was the Latino Caribbean Diaspora Collective’s (LCDC) Latino/Hispanic HIV Community Research Forum: Creando Una Red Para Un Futuro Sin VIH/SIDA, a satellite meeting leading up to the opening of the 19th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012) in Washington, D.C. The Forum was made possible by the Office of AIDS Research’s […]
International Indigenous Pre-Conference on HIV/AIDS Works to Combat Epidemic Among Native Populations
The two-day International Indigenous Pre-Conference on HIV/AIDS kicked off on Friday, July 20, with the mission of galvanizing energy and engagement leading into this year’s International AIDS Conference. Hosting representatives from over 100 distinct indigenous populations from 14 different countries, the event highlighted the astonishing dedication of government officials, NGOs and private citizens from around […]
Ending the Epidemic: Declaration to end AIDS in America
Blue Ribbon Panel The momentum to bring an end to HIV is coalescing, we’re asking everyone to commit in writing to ending the epidemic. Will you sign the Declaration to END AIDS in America? A Blue Ribbon Panel will draft the treatise. The Declaration will crystallize our values and beliefs on how to take the science of Treatment as Prevention (TasP), High Impact Prevention (HIP), and Combination Prevention and make […]
Ending the Epidemic: A Shared Legacy
Happy Pride! In June of 1969, patrons/drag queens at the Stonewall Inn in New York City stood up and fought back against police harassment that had become all too common in lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities. Their bravery sparked the modern gay rights movement and is the reason that June […]
25 Years Fighting HIV/AIDS in Minority Communities
The month of June holds special significance in the history of America’s HIV/AIDS epidemic. In June of 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first known cases of what would later become known as AIDS. Thirty-one years later, the U.S. Supreme Court will make history again, when it releases its decision this […]