When the Black AIDS Institute released its annual State of AIDS Report in 2009, there was something new in the air. America had elected its first Black President, one who came to Washington promising to change the political tone and to tackle problems that had long been kicked down the…

A report from the XVIII International AIDS Conference, Vienna, Austria In the weeks since the Black AIDS Institute’s delegation of journalists, activists and people living with HIV/AIDS left the International AIDSConference (IAC) in Vienna Austria, I’ve been sorting, filtering and putting into perspective our experiences and memories of the week.…

Welcome to Passing the Test: The Challenges and Opportunitiesof HIV Testing in Black America. We are pleased to partner with the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis & Malaria (GBC) and the National Association of People withAIDS (NAPWA) on this edition of the state of AIDS in Black America series…

An Opportune Moment—If We Act As a 52-year-old Black gay man with HIV, I have many reasons to welcome the inauguration of Barack Obama. A big one is that an Obama administration has enormous potential to reinvigorate a struggle that has been allowed to flag over the last eight years:…

What if Black America Was a Country unto Itself? Welcome to Left Behind, the latest in a series of reports on the state of AIDS in Black America by the Black AIDS Institute. While the world wasn’t looking, the AIDS epidemic in the United States refused to go away. In…

Welcome to the Movement I’ve been trying to get Black folks to pay attention to the AIDS epidemic in our community for over 20 years. But in the heat of the presidential primaries, I learned everything I need to know about mobilizing Black folk, and I owe it all to…

We’re the ones we’ve been waiting for “It is people joining forces in a time of great need. It is hope, it is sharing the burden. It is people caring for their own and finding love, and surviving, and believing in the future even when we are hurting more than…

My Life with AIDS Here’s a shocking fact: I’m a middle-aged man. I know it sounds like a pretty run-of-the-mill achievement, but it is not. I have been living on borrowed time for a quarter century. You see, I was infected with HIV in 1981. This year, I celebrated my…

Charting Our Course to Health Welcome to the 2006 report on the State of AIDS in Black America, The Way Forward. It is both fitting and ironic that this report is being released on the sixth annual National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness day as we all say our final goodbyes to…

The State of AIDS Among Black Women Here’s the vastly underreported good news about HIV and AIDS among African American women: In June 2005, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported a six percent drop in infection rates among Black women between the years 2000 and 2003. Later,…