Under the name of Stronger Together Partnership (STP), The Black AIDS Institute, San Francisco Community Health Center, and Latino Commission on AIDS, three organizations led by and serving people of color, have joined forces with other organizations to address the institutional challenges posed by the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) to the…

A Black Strategy To End HIV HIV is a disease that affects the most marginalized: Black and brown people, LGBTQ people, people living in poverty, people who don’t have housing, people experiencing substance addiction, and so many others who aren’t able to thrive simply because of who they are, who…

The State of Healthcare Access in Black America initiative is a partnership between amfAR, AIDS United, George Washington University’s Milken Institute of Public Health, Harvard University’s Center for Health Law and Policy Innovation, the National Health Law Program, The Centeron Budget and Policy Priorities, National Black Justice Coalition and Georgetown…

Welcome to the 2016 State of AIDS in Black America report. Beginning in 2000, the Black AIDS Institute has publishedseventeen reports on the state of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Black communities. Over the years we have focused on Black youth, Black women, Black gay and bisexual men and other men…

Introduction The late Dr. Maya Angelou said, “Do the best you can until you know better. Then, when you know better, do better!” I can’t think of a more appropriate quote or a more fitting messengerwhen I think of this moment in time in the trajectory of the HIV/AIDS epidemic…

Introduction A five-year action strategy to defeat AIDS in Black America Welcome to Light at the End of the Tunnel, the 10th report on the State of AIDS In Black America. This is the Black AIDS Institute’s 19th report looking at the many challenges and opportunities confronting the Black response…

Introduction A New Chapter in AIDS. Will It Be the Final Chapter? The Future Is in Our Hands Welcome to Exit Strategy: Ending the AIDS Epidemic in Black America, the Black AIDS Institute’s eighth annual State of AIDS in Black America report. It’s hard to believe that I have been…

“Black men loving Black men is a call to action, an acknowledgment of responsibility. We take care of our own kind when the night grows cold andsilent. These days the nights are cold-blooded and the silence echoes withcomplicity.” Joseph Beam, Brother to Brother: Words from the Heart I was 24…

The History of the AIDS Epidemic in Black America. Marking the 30th year of the epidemic brings to the surface so many powerful and conflicting emotions for me personally that I find it difficult to make sense of them all. I’m acutely aware of how lucky I am and how…

Every day, in ways both large and small, each of us has deciding moments. Moments when we decide to do good, bad or nothing. Today we are at a collective deciding moment. When it comes to HIV/AIDS, there is no difference between doing bad and doing nothing. Edmund Burke said,…