November 29, 2016


 
   Lee Daniels, director, producer and activist, known for Monster's Ball, Precious, The Butler and Empire.

Heroes in the Struggle: Lee Daniels

He is the Academy Award winning filmmaker of films like PRECIOUS: BASED ON THE NOVEL PUSH BY SAPPHIRE, THE PAPERBOY, LEE DANIELS' THE BUTLER and MONSTER'S BALL, and the producer of the hit television series EMPIRE and the soon to be released STAR on Fox, but since the earliest days of the epidemic writer/director/producer Lee Daniels has also been an HIV/AIDS activist.  |  more
 
 
   


  
Dr. Anthony Fauci

 ACE ACA resources

Trans ID issues

 Dr. Juarez-Reyes
NIH Spotlights HIV Cure Research  ...
 
 
 
 
In two Facebook Live events from NIAID's Strategies for an HIV Cure conference this week we learned about advances in HIV cure research from leaders in HIV science. Dr. Fauci Reflects on the State  |  more















 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
     



You Can Help Consumers, Providers
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HIV programs have been doing great work to get people living with HIV enrolled in Marketplace health coverage since Open Enrollment began on November 1. Here are some resources to help keep it | more

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                                                     





 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

 

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There is a lot of uncertainty about what a Trump presidency will mean for many communities, but one group that has been particularly nervous is transgender people. Sunday, November 20 |  
                           
 



 




 

 
 

'A Huge Improvement': Study Finds 
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Jails and federal prisons in California and elsewhere are adopting new treatment guidelines for latent tuberculosis infection based on research showing that it can be treated |  


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.
 
Science
 
 
A blood test of AIDS returns a positive reading; for decades millions have died of the virus but now one doctor thinks he may be closer than over to quelling the virus.
 
Treatment
 
 
The number of HIV-infected people taking anti-retroviral medicine has doubled in just five years, the UN said Monday, while highlighting high infection rates among young African women.
 
Miscellaneous
 
 
A question has always hung over the reaction of gay men to the plague that terrorized and decimated them in the 1980s and 1990s: Why did they not surrender? They came of age in an era of intense stigma; and AIDS, as many Christian fundamentalists gleefully noted, appeared almost as confirmation that the wages of sin are death. They were surrounded by a culture that emphatically believed that they had asked for this, that mass death was, as National Review put it, "retribution for a repulsive vice." How did they not entirely internalize this? Why, after a brief moment of liberation in the 1970s, did they not crawl back into the closet and die?
 
 
GOP leaders barely muscled up the votes to reject an amendment that would have barred federal contractors from getting government work if they discriminate against the LGBT community.
 
 
The election of Donald J. Trump gives the Republicans in Congress a chance to act on their often-stated desire to get rid of Obamacare, a wish that Mr. Trump mostly says he shares. Aaron E. Carroll and Austin Frakt, the health policy analysts for The Upshot, discuss: Then what?
 
 
Margo Solomon has health insurance for herself and her four children. But actually getting treatment is another matter.
 
 
Last weekend I watched Moonlight, Barry Jenkins’s remarkable coming-of-age film , again. It was a Friday night at BAM, and the screening was completely sold out. Early on, though, one scene made me realize I might have picked a bad audience: It's in the first third of the movie, where our young hero Chiron is sitting at the dining table with this surrogate parents, Juan and Teresa (Mahershala Ali and Janelle Monáe). He asks them, point-blank, "What's a faggot?" It's a moment that feels like a gut punch. When I first saw it, I held my breath, waiting to hear what Juan would say. He explained that it was a negative word used to describe men who liked other men. Then came the next question, "Am I a faggot?" A group of women behind me started giggling at the first question and were full-on laughing by the second-so much so that they drowned out Juan's response. I was perplexed: Were we watching the same movie?
 
 
The Trans Day of Resilience project offers artists and partner organizations the opportunity to honor trans liberation in conjunction with the Transgender Day of Remembrance.
 
 
I was so lucky last week. Two days after the election, 2,300 hundred racial justice activists of all colors arrived in Atlanta at the Facing Race conference, which my organization Race Forward hosts. They were shaken, grieving, and scared. We held each other through the immediate aftermath of an election that most of us didn't think could turn out as it did. That holding made it possible for us to see through our panic to the opportunities and the work ahead.
 
 



In This Issue
Phill Wilson
This week we continue our series about the Heroes in the Struggle Hall of Fame inductees, with a story about Academy Award winning filmmaker Lee Daniels's three decades of the HIV/AIDS activism. On this Thursday, World AIDS Day, the Black AIDS Institute will recognize Lee and several other honorees at the Heroes in the Struggle Gala and Award Celebration, a star-studded event  |  more
EVENTS
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Heroes in the Struggle Gala & Award Celebration

Los Angeles, CA| Dec 1

A photographic tribute to people of African descent and their allies who have made outstanding contributions to the fight against  HIV/AIDS.

Get tickets at hits.eventbrite.com

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AIDS 2016 Update Webinars

*Click below to register*


 
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BTAN Celebrates World AIDS Day
 
Dec 1

Charlotte, NC | The Affair

Atlanta, GA | World AIDS Day 2016

Richmond, VA| Testing, Education & Awareness

Melbourne, FL | A Celebration of Life: Reflections Through the Arts


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BLACK AIDS
WEEKLY

PHILL WILSON 

Publisher

 

HILARY BEARD 

Editor-in-Chief

 

TERESA RIDLEY 

Copy Editor

 

GERALD GARTH

Outreach and Communications
 Coordinator

 

NAOMI BLACK

Programs Specialist

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