HIV/AIDS Resources and Upcoming Events for Black History Month
Posted February 9, 2024As Black History Month unfolds, we’re reminded of the enduring struggles and triumphs of the Black community in the face of systemic oppression. This month serves as a call to action, urging us to confront inequalities and systemic injustices and advocate for social justice. From healthcare disparities to economic inequality, the fight for racial justice intersects with every aspect of our society, demanding bold and progressive solutions.
In this pursuit, it’s crucial to address pressing health issues, such as the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on Black communities. As we commemorate Black History Month, let us stand in solidarity with events and initiatives dedicated to combating HIV/AIDS and ensuring equitable access to prevention, treatment, and support services.
To further educate and support, here are a few resources dedicated to Black HIV/AIDS awareness:
Breaking Boundaries & Building Solutions:
Confronting Medical Misogynoir and Obstetric Racism in HIV Care
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Join us for “Breaking Boundaries & Building Solutions: Confronting Medical Misogynoir and Obstetric Racism in HIV Care”, a three-part series designed to spark curious, compassionate, and courageous conversations about—and changes in—care inequities and injustices that uniquely and disproportionately impact U.S. (United States) Black women with and at risk for HIV. The three-part series utilizes narrative analysis, interactive lectures, expert panels, group discussions, Q & A sessions, anonymous online polling with real time data visualization, and scholarship from the social sciences, humanities, nursing, medicine, legal studies, and bioethics. The intended audience includes people working in direct service provision, administration, financing, advocacy, activism, organizing, education, research, evaluation, and implementation or improvement science.
HIV Learning Network — More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area
Date & Time: 02/22/2024 – 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM Pacific Time
Join us for the next HIV Learning Network session on February 22 @ 12:00pm (Pacific): More than Pushing Pills: Black AIDS Activism in the Bay Area, by Antoine S. Johnson, PhD, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of History of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities & Social Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Description: From the beginning of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black people have been overrepresented among people with HIV. The story of AIDS in the US is most often told through the lens of white gay men (in movies like Philadelphia, How to Survive a Plague, and The Normal Heart). In recognition of Black History Month, we are centering this session on the story of Black American responses to the HIV/AIDS epidemic, specifically in the San Francisco Bay Area. To do this, we’ve invited Antoine S. Johnson, PhD, to explain the systemic and structural forces that served to create and increase populations “at risk” for acquiring HIV. He’ll provide the history of how Black organizers employed multiple strategies centered in harm reduction to respond to the HIV/AIDS crisis. Lastly, he’ll explain how healthcare workers efforts’ have both helped and hindered marginalized people in the early days of the healthcare workforce’s response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic and discuss what we can learn from those experiences to better serve people with and affected by HIV.
Free CME’s Offered! Click below to learn more and register.
For a compilation of Black/African American HIV/AIDS resources, check out TargetHIV.gov‘s post on Ryan White and National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day
Learn more about Black History Month from BlackHistoryMonth.gov
