October 18, 2016


 
Mukamtagara Jendayi (center), Deputy Director and Co-founder, The Afiya Center, a non-profit women-centered HIV prevention and reproductive justice organization located in Dallas, Texas. She is flanked by  Jeffrey Klausner, M.D. (left), Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and the Program in Global Health, UCLA; and Phill Wilson, Founder and C.E.O., Black AIDS Institute.


AAHU Fellow Mukamtagara Jendayi: Fighting for an Equal Voice, Equal Access

Mukamtagara Jendayi's passion for women's rights began in college, during her formative undergraduate years at Texas Women's University (TWU), when she became active in student groups and campus grassroots organizations. |  more
 
 
   


  
Dr. Hansel Tookes

 Faith organizations

White House

 Scene from "13th."
Fighting HIV In Miami, One Dirty Needle 
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MIAMI - The doctor on a mission met the homeless heroin addict who lived under a tree last year at Jackson Health System's special immunology  |  more















 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     



Rep. Davis, Ambassador Birx, Local
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Congressman Danny Davis joins US Ambassador Deborah Birx, local clergy and activists in Chicago for a discussion about faith, stigma and ending AIDS. October |  more


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                     





 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

Administration Launches New Campaign to 
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When the White House convened the Millennial Outreach and Enrollment Summit,  the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) | 
                        
 



 




 

 
 

With '13th,' Ava DuVernay Breaks Down 
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Ava DuVernay's
comprehensive, damning mass incarceration 
documentary,
"13th" dropped October 7th at select theaters and on Netflix. The film breaks |  


WHAT WE'RE READING
A cross-section of articles we've read this week about HIV/AIDS, STIs and a wide cross-section of structural and systemic factors impacting HIV/AIDS in Black communities.
 
Hepatitis
 
 
The black-box warning, which applies to all hep C medications, is the most serious the health agency can give.
 
MSM
 
 
Study provides evidence that concurrent relationships sustain HIV transmission
 
 
Only four in 10 gay and bisexual men in Baltimore without HIV are aware that pre-exposure prophylaxis medication (PrEP) may significantly reduce their risk of contracting the virus, even those who had recently visited a doctor or been tested for a sexually transmitted disease, new research suggests.
 
Science
 
 
Some HIV-infected - and untreated - children do not develop AIDS. A new study shows that they control the virus in a different way from the few infected adults who remain disease-free, and sheds light on the reasons for this difference.
 
 
The spike America has seen in drug overdose deaths in recent years has provided an unexpected lifesaving benefit for others by increasing the number of desperately needed organ transplants.
 
 
Research involving men taking antiretroviral therapy, all with an undetectable viral load, has shown that imperfect adherence to therapy is associated with higher levels of key markers of inflammation and immune activation. The study is published in the online edition of Clinical Infectious Diseases. The authors believe their findings could explain the residual inflammation observed in people taking HIV therapy who have a suppressed viral load.
 
 
This week, Oxford University researchers released a study that may impact treatments for HIV. The study looked at young children in South Africa with HIV and found that 10 percent of them never developed symptoms of AIDS. Philip Goulder, a professor of pediatrics at Oxford University who led the research team, joins Hari Sreenivasan.
 
Treatment
 
 
This may occur even when people living with the virus have an undetectable viral load.
 
Miscellaneous
 
 
The third Black Male Re-Imagined event seeks to challenge both the explicit and implicit biases being perpetuated by mainstream media.
 
 
All children deserve a good education. But this doesn't mean they all get a good education. Black children often struggle against racism in school and unfair suspensions and other forms of discipline. So more parents are making the decision to place their children into a healthier environment where they can thrive both academically and culturally. According to The Atlantic newspaper, "Although Black students only make up 16 percent of all public-school students nationwide, they now account for 10 percent of the homeschooling population and these numbers are rising rapidly."


In This Issue
Phill Wilson
This week we begin the first in a series about the 2016 Fellows of the African American HIV University by highlighting the work of Texas-based HIV and reproductive-justice advocate Mukamtagara Jendayi cofounder |  more
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