National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, March 10, 2024
Posted March 9, 2024From HIV.gov:
Prevention and Testing at Every Age. Care and Treatment at Every Stage.
The Office on Women’s Health (OWH) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services leads National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (#NWGHAAD).
In the United States, about 23% of people living with HIV are women and, in 2021, women made up 19 percent of new diagnoses, according to CDC data. The highest number of new diagnoses were among women ages 25 to 44. Advances in testing, treatment, and prevention have resulted in progress towards the nation’s goal to end the HIV epidemic by 2030.
The theme for NWGHAAD 2024 is: Prevention and Testing at Every Age. Care and Treatment at Every Stage. OWH continues this theme to reemphasize the need to further prevention efforts and ensure equity in HIV care and treatment. It also reinforces the first 3 goals of the National HIV/AIDS Strategy (NHAS), that focus on the prevention of new HIV infections, improving HIV-related health outcomes of people living with HIV, and reducing HIV-related disparities. NWGHAAD focuses efforts on three of the target populations outlined in the NHAS; Black women, transgender women, and youth aged 13-24 years.
You can learn more and find additional resources from OWH here. View additional data for women and girls through the AHEAD dashboard here.
From AIDSVu:
AIDSVu’s infographics are meant to encourage new ways of visualizing the HIV epidemic among women. Share them on social, print them out as one-pagers, and add them to your presentations.
Check out AIDSVu’s NWWHAAD Toolkit:
Check out our upcoming webinars:
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.
The AAFP has reviewed Breaking Boundaries & Building Solutions: Confronting Medical Misogynoir and Obstetric Racism in HIV Care, and deemed it acceptable for AAFP credit. Term of approval is from 02/20/2024 to 04/16/2024. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
