In the United States, HIV/AIDS is no longer just a disease affecting white, gay men. The percentage of cases of women living with HIV has tripled in the past 20 years, and women of color are most affected.  Yet outdated perceptions about the epidemic drive government prevention work, from the way data is collected to who gets tested. 

On this edition, those on the frontlines of the grassroots HIV/AIDS movement bring the discussion about HIV risk up to date. They say generating more relevant prevention models is literally a matter of life and death, especially for women of color.

Silvia Martei, HIV positive woman in Oakland, CA; Naina Khanna, W.O.R.L.D. community outreach coordinator; Carrie Broadus, National Association of People with AIDS; Waheedah Shabazz-El, ACT-UP Philadelphia member, Community HIV/AIDS Mobilization Project and Philadelphia FIGHT community organizer/trainer; Kenyon Farrow, Prevention Justice Mobilization Communications coordinator and  Queers for Economic Justice board member; Ginger Virago, harm reduction specialist and Saint James Infirmary board member and case worker at ³Positive She,² a University of San Francisco program for HIV-positive women; Esther Lucero, San Francisco Native American AIDS Project HIV case manager; L. Nyrobi N. Moss, Sister Love sexual health educator; Dazon Dixon Diallo, Sister Love intervention specialist founder/chief executive officer; Lisa Diane White, Sister Love program manager.

Silvia Martei, Naina Khanna, Carrie Broadus, Waheedah Shabazz-El, Kenyon Farrow, Ginger Virago, Esther Lucero, L. Nyrobi N. Moss, Dazon Dixon Diallo, Lisa Diane White

For More Information:

Sister Love
PO Box 10558
3709 Bakers Ferry Road, SW
Atlanta, GA 30331
404-505-7777 
866-750-7733
[email protected]
www.sisterlove.org, www.sisterlove.org

AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power

PO Box 22439

Philadelphia, PA 19110

215-386-1981

[email protected]

www.critpath.org/actup/

W.O.R.L.D.

4141 3rd Street
Oakland, CA 94612

510-986-0340 x306

www.womenhiv.org/

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