December 8, 2015


 
PrEP is one of a number of HIV prevention strategies for sexually active gay and bisexual men
More Could Benefit from HIV Prevention Pill Truvada
Too few Americans who are at risk for HIV infection are taking Truvada -- a daily pill that could protect them against the virus that causes AIDS, federal

 
    

  
 Journee Smollett
CDC Vital Signs
AIDS.gov
Hep C testing
Jussie and Jurnee Smollett on World...
On Worlds AIDS Day, the actors and activists discuss the importance of advocating for the lives of Black people in all arenas.
December 1 marks World AIDS Day, and with it comes the opportunity to not only support and advocate for|
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     
PrEP: A Powerful Prevention...
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released its 2015 HIV Vital Signs focusing on preexposure prophylaxis (PrEP). This Vital Signs includes two Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports|




 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 
Digital Tools: Supporting the White...
As has been observed often, the National HIV/AIDS Strategy: Updated to 2020, is a national plan, not just a federal one. Active participation from stakeholders across all sectors of society is needed to put the Strategy into action and end the|
                  
 



 






 

 
 
Testing For Hepatitis C In Prisons...
Around the country, prisoners are clamoring to be cured of a potentially deadly disease, while prison administrators are reeling from the treatment's price tag. Hepatitis C, a virus that can eventually cause cirrhosis|


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
 
 
Treating hepatitis C with expensive new medicines at the earliest signs of liver damage improves patients' health and is also cost-effective, a new computer simulation suggests.
 
Prevention
 
 
Even though taking a daily pill can protect almost completely against getting  H.I.V., a third of primary care doctors and nurses in the United States have never heard of it, federal health officials said this week.
 
 
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention now believes one in four sexually active gay and bisexual men should take Truvada, an HIV prevention pill.
 
The conclusion, reached in a new report released Tuesday, suggests potentially millions of people should take the pill daily. The report also found that one in five injection drug users and one in 200 sexually active heterosexual men should also take Truvada.
 
Science
 
 
Antiretroviral therapies, or ART, have enabled people with HIV and AIDS to live much longer lives, transforming what was considered a death sentence into a chronic condition. Yet concerns for these patients remain. Up to half of people with HIV on these drug regimens have some sort of cognitive impairment, such as memory loss or problems with executive functioning, despite the virus being almost undetectable in their bodies.
 
Treatment
 
 
LONDON (Reuters) - Some 15.8 million people worldwide are now on HIV treatment and a fast-track strategy to end the AIDS pandemic is starting to show results, the United Nations AIDS program said on Tuesday.
 
Miscellaneous
 
 
NEW YORK (AP) - A New Yorker who rowed across the Atlantic Ocean for AIDS awareness has arrived home in Brooklyn, ending a 21-month journey.
 
 
A former police station is providing one of the few places for the country's estimated 1.5 million LGBT seniors to spend their later years together
 
 
A company that makes two of the priciest drugs on the market was looking to make profits and didn't care if patients could afford them, a Senate committee said Tuesday.
 
 
World AIDS Day recognizes the everyday lives and particular struggles of people around the world living with AIDS and HIV, but one population has been long overlooked. According to recent findings from the World Health Organization that analyzed data from 15 countries, transgender women are nearly 49 times more likely than the general population to contract HIV. This means that, just for being who they are, they are part of the population at highest risk for acquiring HIV.
 
 
NewsHour's John Carlos Frey reports in this updated segment on San Francisco's plan to zero out the number of new HIV infections. The city's public health officials, doctors, and activists have made huge strides battling the epidemic and are now pushing for wider use of a drug shown to reduce HIV infections in at-risk men.
In This Issue
Phill Wilson
This week we continue to talk about PrEP. As I've said over and over, we have the tools to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic. But even though more people are taking PrEP, not enough people are taking the | more

EVENTS 

 
National Center for Innovation in HIV Care 2015 Webinars

December 10
1pm ET
Strong Commuities: Understanding Intersectionality and its Role in Access to and
Engagement in HIV Care
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December 14
1pm ET
Implications of the Updated National HIV/AIDS Strategy for ASOs, CBOs, and
Health Centers
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2015 National HIV Prevention Conference
December 6-9, 2015 
Atlanta, Georgia 
Hyatt Regency Atlanta & Atlanta Marriott Marquis

National PrEP Tour 2015 - 2016


Broward County, Fl
2/5/16

Charlotte/Rock Hill
2/23/16

Columbia, SC
2/16/16

Dallas, TX
1/27/16


Fort Lauderdale (Broward County)
2/5/16

Los Angeles, CA
2/11/16

Melbourne, FL
2/3/16

Richmond-Petersburg, VA
2/24/16

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BLACK AIDS
WEEKLY

PHILL WILSON 

Publisher

 

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Editor-in-Chief

 

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Copy Editor

 

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