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Putting Meaningful Involvement of People Living with HIV into action for Black women and girls as we #StopHIVTogether
Around National Women and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we caught up with LaTrischa Miles to learn more about her work and how we can center Black women and girls in our work to stop HIV together.
Learning opportunities with AIDS United’s Midwest Capacity Building Assistance team
Throughout the month of March, AIDS United’s Midwest Capacity Building Assistance program will offer a variety of no-cost learning and engagement opportunities for health departments and their community partners across the region.
The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who use drugs
Calculating the true damage caused by the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States is a difficult task. We can note that more than 519,000 Americans have died due to complications from COVID-19 over the past year, but that number does not reflect all of the death and undue suffering this virus and our nation’s response have caused.
Congressional Community Project Funding: How new rules can benefit HIV organizations.
The House Committee on Appropriations has recently announced new rules for community project funding. This process, also known as earmarking or pork-barrel spending, is the often misunderstood and disparaged funding process of inserting provisions into appropriations bills that allow for the direct funding of certain projects. This means that these funding recipients will not have to respond to requests for proposals to receive federal dollars.
A reflection from AIDS United’s Zamora Fellow on centering racial justice in ending the epidemic
Zamora Public Policy fellow Jake Soria reflects on the importance of centering racial justice in ending the epidemic. Through uplifting the voices of black community members, we can begin to have the needed conversations on how to prioritize Black leaders in HIV advocacy and create effective strategies for ensuring that BIPOC communities are receiving the treatment necessary to result in equitable health outcomes and an end to the HIV epidemic by 2025.
