OCT10 AIDS United at the 2018 National Harm Reduction Conference

Next week, October 18-21, the Harm Reduction Conference will take place in New Orleans, LA. The conference is the most widely attended harm reduction gathering in the nation, and the only conference of its kind in the United States. And AIDS United will be there in full force!

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AUG31 Puerto Rico can’t be left out or left behind

Last weekend, AIDS United staff had the opportunity to attend Lazos Creando Fuerzas (Connections Creating Strengths) in San Juan, the fifteenth conference of Puerto Rico CoNCRA, a community organization serving Puerto Ricans living with and affected by HIV.

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AUG30 AIDS United at 2018 USCA!

Next week, September 6 - 9, the United States Conference on AIDS (USCA) will take place in Orlando, FL. And AIDS United will be there in full force!

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MAR16 In Milwaukee, HIV/STI Cluster Has Health Officials Worried

After the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported on a cluster of more than 125 people, including teenagers, who recently contracted HIV and/or syphilis, the City of Milwaukee Health Department and community organizations held a joint press conference on the issue.

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DEC19 Our Top Blogs and Articles from 2017

Looking for some holiday reading? Check out these pieces from the past year!

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NOV01 Don’t Leave People in Prisons or Jail Behind

Katie Kramer, MPH, MSW, is the Co-Founder and CEO of Corrections, Communities & Families of The Bridging Group in Oakland, CA. Katie also a lead trainer and capacity building provider for Project Start+ (PS+), a behavioral re-entry intervention for people living with HIV returning to the community after incarceration. We caught up with Katie to learn more about her work and the PS+ intervention.

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OCT04 Continuing Forward: Leadership For Now

I got a call in May 2016. “Jesse we are searching for the interim President & CEO of AIDS United…. Are you interested?” Without missing a heartbeat, I thought to myself, “You must do this – now!” My life changed immediately. I could never have predicted all the other changes coming in 2016. For all of us living with, working for, and affected by HIV in America, 2016 was a year of unexpected change.

Posted By: Jesse Milan, Jr, President & CEO, AIDS United - Wednesday, October 04, 2017 comments (0)  | add a comment Read More

MAY16 Breaking the Silence to Change Hearts and Minds

Lance Toma is the Executive Director of API Wellness, an LGBTQ and people of color community health center in San Francisco that transforms lives by advancing health, wellness, and equality. Lance has been working in HIV for over 20 years, and his work is firmly grounded in social justice. This May 19 is National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. We caught up with Lance to learn more about the significance of this day, the barriers faced by Asian and Pacific Islander (API) communities, and his motivations for doing this work.

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JUN28 Science Alone Can't Create a Just World

I often talk about what it was like testing HIV-positive in 1992, when the only treatment available was AZT. Today, I consider the bounty of treatments available and the many more in development. I think of what science has done for me, this field, and for so many others like me. Yet science alone can’t create a just world. In its purest form, science can be cold, calculated, and simply focused on what can be proven true or false. Science has delivered both cures and bombs, has been used for both good and bad. While science has the potential to fix much of what ails us — it won’t work for the advancement of us all without being firmly steeped in and led by our values.

Posted By: Michael Kaplan, President & CEO, AIDS United - Tuesday, June 28, 2016 comments (0)  | add a comment Read More

MAR03 PrEPing Your Capacity

On July 12, 2012, the FDA approved Truvada as PrEP, an HIV prevention medication for individuals who are at high risk for HIV infection. Three and half years later – PrEP has taken the world of HIV prevention by storm as many community based organizations (CBOs), AIDS service organizations (ASOs), and clinicians have begun to integrate PrEP into their care delivery models. In response, Getting To Zero, the AIDS United Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)-funded capacity building initiative, has delivered several trainings and created tools to help organizations understand what PrEP is and how it can be best integrated into their HIV prevention services. Our PrEP 101 has been used to train several organizations about the basics of PrEP and barriers faced by key affected populations regarding access and adherence to PrEP. Here are some common questions about PrEP that we encounter in the field.

Posted By: Sarah Getachew, Program Associate, AIDS United - Thursday, March 03, 2016 comments (0)  | add a comment Read More

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