October 13, 2015


 

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia

William Brawner: A Journey From Silence to Advocacy
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For William Brawner, HIV has always been a not-so-happy fact of life. The 35-year-old, however, has turned his journey into a lesson of self-acceptance|

 
   


  
CDC



Matthew Murguia

Increased risk

 Newly insured
CDC Supports New WHO Early Release HIV
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CDC welcomes the recent announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) of new Early Release HIV Treatment and Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) guidelines that will significantly increase the number of people|
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     



Talking to My Doctor about PrEP...
Editor's Note: The promotional materials for National Gay Men's HIV/AIDS Awareness Day included information on PrEP. This post is a follow-up to one from 2014, giving one individual's personal perspective|




 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Transgender Discrimination Linked to...
Discrimination may trigger risky health behaviors by transgender Americans, a new study suggests.
Transgender adults who deal with more discrimination are more likely to smoke cigarettes, abuse alcohol and drugs, and attempt suicide, the study|
          
 



 






 

 
 

Newly Insured Treasure Medicaid...
SAN DIEGO - The Affordable Care Act unleashed a building boom of community health centers across the country. At a cost of $11 billion, more than 950 health centers have opened and thousands have expanded or modernized. 
In San Diego, new clinics have|
      
 

 

 

 

 

 

 



   
 



WHAT WE'RE READING

A cross-section of articles we've read this week about HIV/AIDS, STIs and a wide cross-section of structural and systemic factors impacting HIV/AIDS in Black communities.

Hepatitis
 
 
People with hepatitis C virus (HCV) have a higher risk of cardiovascular disease and CVD-related death, especially if they have high blood pressure or diabetes. Publishing their findings in the journal Gastroenterology, researchers conducted a meta-analysis of 22 studies published through July 2015 that compared CVD rates between people with and without hep C, or that looked at hep C rates among people with CVD.
 
MSM
 
 
A recently-published survey from the US and Canada reveals that on the whole HIV-negative gay men would rather take pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) intermittently and only before they anticipate sex, in what has been called "event-driven" or "on-demand" PrEP.
 
Science
 
 
Most doctors at the frontline of the HIV epidemic in the United States recommend early antiretroviral therapy (ART) and many also believe they have a role in providing pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) to the uninfected partners of their patients living with HIV, according to research published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. Overall, 87% of doctors recommended ART from the point of diagnosis and most thought PrEP appropriate in some circumstances. However, only a third had actually prescribed PrEP.
 
 
HIV particles are effectively trapped by the cervicovaginal mucus from women who harbor a particular vaginal bacteria species, Lactobacillus crispatus. The findings, published this week in mBio, an online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, could lead to new ways to reduce or block vaginal transmission of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs).

Treatment
 
 
SAN FRANCISCO - It wasn't his first broken condom, so Rafael didn't worry. But three weeks later, the man he'd met in a bar called to say that he had "probably been exposed" to H.I.V.
 
Miscellaneous
 
 
Philadelphia police have asked for the public's help in finding the men who attacked and killed a transgender woman in Logan in the wee hours of the morning Tuesday.
 
 
Almost one year ago today, The New Yorker published the story of a young man named Kalief Browder, who spent three years on Rikers Island without being convicted of a crime. Accused of stealing a backpack in 2010 at the age of 16, he was held on Rikers for more than 1,000 days waiting for a trial that never happened. His brutal detention included, among other abuses, two years in solitary confinement and beatings by officers and inmates. This tragedy of criminal justice was further compounded last June when, two years after his case was dismissed for lack of evidence, Browder, 22, committed suicide.
 
 
WASHINGTON - Congress and the Obama administration are frantically seeking ways to hold down Medicare premiums that could rise by roughly 50 percent for some beneficiaries next year, according to lawmakers and Medicare officials.
 
 
Annick Borquez, Ph.D., a specialist on using mathematical modeling to estimate the contribution of different sources of risk to HIV incidence in various populations and settings, spoke on a Sept. 3 webinar hosted by the Network for Multidisciplinary Studies on ARV-Based HIV Prevention (NEMUS). She discussed a mathematical model for estimating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of various HIV-prevention approaches among transgender women sex workers (TWS) in Lima, Peru. This is a substudy of a larger study of HIV prevention models among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transgender women (TW) in Peru. The mathematical model is the third phase of the study, and was preceded by a stakeholder analysis and a capacity analysis of the Peruvian health system.

In This Issue
Phill Wilson
On October 24th, in Baltimore, the Black AIDS Institute and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene will cosponsor the H& Health and Hip Hop Conference, a free, men-only event, where young men can discuss sex, sexualitymore

EVENTS 

H & Health and Hip Hop
Date: October 24, 2015
Time: 10am - 4pm 
Location: Morgan State University Student Center
1700 E. Cold Spring
Baltimore, MD 
For more info:
312-545-2442 or 

 
National PrEP Tour
2015 - 2016

Atlanta, GA  10/15/15

Baltimore, MD
11/5/15

Bay Area, CA
11/17/15

Broward County, Fl
2/5/16

Charlotte, NC
TBD

Chicago, IL
11/18/15

Cincinnati, OH
TBD

Columbia, SC
2/16/16

Dallas, TX
TBD

Detroit, MI
TBD

Jackson, MS
TBD

Kansas City, MO
TBD

Little Rock, AR
TBD

Los Angeles, CA
2/9/16

Melbourne, FL
11/3/15

Miami, FL
TBD

Minneapolis, MN
11/5/2015

Miami, FL
TBD

Nashville, TN
TBD

New Orleans, LA
10/13/2015

Philadephia, PA
TBD

Richmond-Petersburg, VA
2/24/16

Rock Hill, SC
TBD

Washington, DC
10/27/2015

*Dates are subject to changeClick here for more info.

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BLACK AIDS
WEEKLY

PHILL WILSON 

Publisher

 

HILARY BEARD 

Editor-in-Chief

 

TERESA RIDLEY 

Copy Editor

 

LASHIEKA P. HUNTER 

Media and Public Relations Consultant


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