World AIDS Day is commemorated on December 1.
This is the largest observance in the HIV/AIDS community because of its global impact. Set by UNAIDS each year, the 2020 theme is: “Ending the HIV/AIDS Epidemic: Resilience and Impact.” Learn more about the U.S. Government’s response here.
This World AIDS Day marks the end of a difficult year for Black communities. We are being hurt twice as hard by COVID than White Americans, as well as continuing to fight the HIV epidemic.
The Trump Administration has funded the “Ending the HIV Epidemic,” the incoming Biden Administration claims to end HIV by 2025. However, despite advanced political will and biomedical progress, we cannot stop the epidemic in Black communities without addressing racism.
Give generously to fight racism and end HIV in Black communities.
BAI Activities
“What World AIDS Day Means to Black People”
Giving Tuesday
This year, December 1 is World AIDS Day and Giving Tuesday.
A large part of BAI’s fight to end HIV in Black communities is funded by organizations and individual donations.
Our advocacy, training, community mobilization, and direct health service programs address anti-Blackness as the true barrier to our people living free of HIV.
Donate To Save Black Lives here
Learn more about BAI’s programs here
WORLD AIDS DAY EVENT ALERT! A Clinic For Us, Los Angeles
On December 1, Los Angeles issued a COVID-related stay-home order. Our goal is to provide you with essential service as safely as possible.
Instead of the December 2 drive-by event, please call us to make an appointment or get a free swag bag, t-shirt, and home HIV testing kit.
Location: 4249 S. Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles 90008
Phone: 213-226-7488
New! Black Voices Matter Campaign
A year-long video conversation series that amplifies Black influencers with varied perspectives and platforms. By including individuals who represent the spectrum of all Black lives, we aim to create HIV awareness in spaces where it has previously been ignored or misunderstood.
Watch our inaugural video with Tina Knowles-Lawson here.
New! Blog about the power of community mobilization
Our Director of National Programs, who is also a faith leader, shares the power of community organizing and voter mobilization. And why Black people have to do it all over again in Georgia. Read Reverend Rob Newells’ blog here.
Partner Events featuring BAI: Listed by date
NMAC Hill Champion for Minority Health Awards
Date and Time: Tuesday December 1, 1.00 pm PT/4.00 pm ET
The National Minority AIDS Council has fought to end HIV by leading with race.
Watch this event to honor Speaker Nancy Pelosi with the John Lewis Good Trouble Award. Watch the award proceedings with several political leaders, and our CEO, Raniyah Copeland, as a Community Host.
Charity Navigator: Instagram Live
Date and Time: December 1, 3.00 – 4.00 pm PT/6.00-7.00 pm ET
Charity Navigator is the world’s largest evaluator of nonprofits. Watch our CEO, Raniyah Copeland, on their #Giving Tuesday Day of Live(streams).
Raniyah will share how BAI has powered through 2020, how we’re using Giving Tuesday, and what World AIDS Day means for us in the midst of a pandemic that is killing Black people at double the rates as White people. Charity Navigator will also interview extraordinary nonprofit leaders from DonorsChoose, UNICEF USA – the organization behind this annual day of giving.
Watch Raniyah’s conversation on Instagram by visiting @charitynav
First Floor Theatre Fundraiser for Black AIDS Institute
On World AIDS Day, First Floor Theatre hosts a reading of virtual reading of ONE IN TWO. Director Donja R. Love, inspired by his 10th anniversary of being HIV positive, offers an unflinching portrait of being Black and queer today. With grace and humor, one in two breaks the silence on an experience that’s an ongoing reality for so many and reveals the community that thrives within it. All profits from ticket sales will be donated to BAI.
Purchase here: https://www.firstfloortheater.com
2020 Texas HIV/STD Conference
Date and Time: Wednesday, December 2, 9.05 am – 10. 30 am CT
Hear our CEO, Raniyah Copeland, present on the panel titled “Ending the Epidemic: National Perspective.”
United We Rise: Facebook Live with Emil Wilbekin
Date and Time: December 2, 4.00 pm PT/7.00 pm ET
We are excited to participate in United We Rise’s World AIDS Day live chat series to discuss: HIV Policy & Liberation. We will discuss how important policy is to improve the health and liberation of Black people, current policies that still stigmatize and criminalize people with HIV, innovative ones that the HIV movement has helped put in place, and which new ones are needed right now.
Hosted by Emil Wilbekin, founder of Native Now, we will be in conversation with Ronald Johnson, National Black Gay Men’s Advocacy Coalition and UWR Planning Committee Member, and Justin C. Smith, Director of the Campaign to End AIDS, Positive Impact Health Centers.
Watch on United We Rise’s Facebook page here
Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) 69th Meeting
Date and Time: December 3, 10.15 – 11.15 am PT/1:15 – 2:15 pm ET
Hear our CEO, Raniyah Copeland, present on the panel titled “Addressing Racism as a Barrier to Ending the HIV Epidemic: A Path Forward.”
This meeting is open to the public. View the meeting agenda here and watch the session here.