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This St. Louis–Based HIV Activist Uses Her Own Story to Make HIV Have ‘Meaning Behind the Numbers’
Positive Women’s Network-USA member and founder of Kneeshe Speaks, Kneeshe Parkinson, talks about the importance of connection, women, and telling our stories.
One of the Early ‘Foot Soldiers’ of HIV Activism Discusses Mobilizing in Black St. Louis
St. Louis–based advocate and educator Joan Ferguson talks about HIV work then and now.
After Losing a Mother and Two Sisters From HIV, This Woman Became an Advocate for Others
“I’ve walked beside them, so I can recognize the struggles, and maybe I can help make the walk easier.”
This Black Museum Leader Is Using Art and Storytelling to Uncover St. Louis’ HIV History
“I want our stories told, even though I know that not all of them are great or are about uplift and accomplishments.”
Affordable Housing and Injection Drug Use Crises Make HIV Success Unequal in San Francisco
While the city has become a global model that ending the HIV epidemic is possible, the impact of the tech boom has created problems for the city’s most marginalized residents.
PWN Launches #PWNCares Sister Circle, a Program to Build Community and Reduce Isolation for Women Diagnosed with HIV
Advocates, providers, and people living with HIV interested in learning more about the PWNCares Sister Circle project are invited to attend a one-hour orientation webinar on Tuesday, Jan. 14.
Black Transgender Activist Kiara St. James on Her Strategic Vision for 2020—and on Getting Help With Holiday Depression and Anxiety
“I realized it wasn’t normal for me to feel the hopelessness I was feeling.”
In Cleveland, Resources to Address Silence and Stigma Matter as Much as Treatment and PrEP
Young black gay and bisexual men in Cleveland wish they had the resources of the state capital, Columbus, to address the HIV epidemic in Northeast Ohio.
Fighting Philadelphia’s HIV Epidemic Also Means Fighting Its Poverty Problem
The HIV epidemic in Philadelphia is heavily concentrated in its black population. Local caregivers at BEBASHI have seen diagnosis rates drop in recent years, though there’s still progress to be made.
National AIDS Memorial’s Annual Video Series Highlights Transgender Community
In its annual Surviving Voices series, the National AIDS Memorial has turned its eyes to the nation’s transgender community, who live at the nexus of numerous structural health disparities.