Real Talk with NMAC

Talking about sexuality often comes with a stigma, and people often feel they can’t talk about it freely for fear of being shamed. But in this episode, we discuss sexuality in an open, safe space to start reducing the stigma around it. Lauren Miller, Health Equity Program Coordinator at NMAC, comes live from the Biomedical Summit in Las Vegas and talks with three guests about their journeys. 

Together, they talk about the experiences that shaped their views on sexuality, the availability of sex education, and the stigma women face from wanting to learn more about their sexuality. They also discuss sex work and the stigma people face when choosing to work in the industry. 

Guests:

Zahara Bassett, CEO and Founder of Life is Work

Latonia Wilkins, Case Manager for Thrive SS

Regina Livingston, Executive Director of the Unspoken Treasure Society

This event is part of a special partnership with the CDC PACT Program.

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Misinformation and fear drive HIV stigma; ending stigma is the only way to end the HIV epidemic. Dernell Green talks with Terrell Parker about the importance of understanding and combating HIV stigma and how disclosure can work toward empathy, support, and education for those living with HIV. 

Terrell shares his own experience of being diagnosed with HIV, how stigma impacted disclosing this information to his circle and sexual partners, and how he navigated the stigma he faced. Dernell and Terrell also discuss the importance of providing accurate information about HIV to younger generations, the need for open, honest conversations about sex to maintain sexual health, and how stigma creates barriers to people receiving care.

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Monkeypox (MPV) has become an unprecedented epidemic and a crisis. While our community has jumped into action and produced groundbreaking innovations to confront the outbreak, the work is not done. We still have disparities in accessing vaccines and treatment, and it’s more important than ever that we continue to work together to end this outbreak. In this episode, federal officials and community stakeholders share how they are responding to the outbreak in a live USCHA town hall. Together, we discuss how to build a platform where we are ready to respond rapidly, how to take a syndemic approach to end HIV, Hepatitis, and MPV, and how we can make treatments more accessible to vulnerable communities. 

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La Viruela del Mono(MPV) se ha convertido en una epidemia y una crisis sin precedente. Aunque nuestra comunidad pasó a la acción y produjo innovaciones revolucionarias para enfrentar el brote, el trabajo no ha acabado. Todavía tenemos disparidades en el acceso a las vacunas y tratamiento, y ahora es más importante que siempre, a seguir trabajando juntos para ponerle fin a este brote. En este capítulo, oficiales federales y partes interesadas de la comunidad comparten cómo están respondiendo al brote, en un ayuntamiento en vivo de USCHA. Juntos platicamos cómo construir una plataforma en la que estemos listos para responder rápidamente, cómo adoptar un enfoque sindémico para acabar con el VIH, Hepatitis, y MPV, y cómo podemos hacer nuestros tratamientos más accesibles para las comunidades vulnerables.

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In Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities, there are amazing people who have dedicated their lives to the people of these communities living with HIV. In this episode, Peter Tuiolosega Silva of Kumukahi Health + Wellness on the island of Hawaii talks with advocates David Utuone and Carolyn Kualii, or Aunty Carolyn. Together, they discuss what Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander communities need most when it comes to today’s advocacy for people living with HIV. 

Because of historical events, the United States government has a unique responsibility to island communities across the Pacific, especially when it comes to healthcare. Aunty Carolyn explains the dynamic of this relationship and discusses the need for more data on Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders living with HIV. Peter, David, and Aunty Carolyn also discuss how HIV has affected their communities, what they want people to know about the inclusion of Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islanders in HIV funding, where they receive solidarity, and how their communities can further encourage and normalize HIV testing.

PrEP Pono

National AIDS Memorial Quilt

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We can only stop HIV by working together. In today’s episode, we come live from the Biomedical HIV Prevention Summit to hear from leaders all over the nation about how they’re working in their communities to stop the spread of HIV and end HIV stigma. 

Together, we discuss how each of these leaders chose to work for the HIV/AIDS community, how we can connect people to important resources like PrEP, how we can generate change in communities with heavy HIV stigma, and what important knowledge we’re going to bring from the summit back into our communities to prevent HIV and improve the lives of those living with HIV. 

Guests: 

LaMar Yarborough, Founder and Exec Director of HYPE to Empower Inc.

Jonathan Roberte, Hyacinth Foundation in New Jersey

Sequan Kolibas, Founder and Exec Director of Hope on Tapp in Salt Lake City, 

Johnny Wilson, Director of Outreach for RAIN in Charlotte, NC.

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Among the people who are diagnosed with HIV, many are young people. In this episode, host Gabriella Spencer talks with Marshun Redmond of NMAC to discuss how we can take steps towards understanding the problems with HIV/AIDS among youth, and celebrate the effort young people are making to fight the battle against HIV/AIDS.

Marshun Redmond went through the Youth Initiative Scholar program with NMAC. Marshun had his own story and wanted to use that story to help others. Marshun tells us why he got involved with the Youth Initiative, why it was a safe space, the importance of peer-to-peer education, and how it led him to bring the leadership skills and tools he gained into the community. Lastly, Marshun leaves three important pieces of advice for the youth. 

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Women and girls often face the highest level of stigma of people living with HIV. In this episode, host Gabriella Spencer gathers with a panel to discuss how we can better support and advocate for women and girls living with HIV. 

Gabriella and guests honor National Women’s and Girls HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, and discuss how an awareness day helps to support and empower women and girls living with HIV. The group shares how they’ve seen women and girls impacted by HIV and HIV stigma in their respective communities, how we can better serve these communities through listening and imparting information, how we can show that every individual has value, how normalizing HIV in healthcare and education can reduce stigma, and what allyship looks like and how it can end the epidemic. 

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Guests:

Esther Ross, NMAC 50+ Program, advocate and activist for women with HIV 

Keiva Lei Cadena, Director of Harm Reduction Services at Kumukahi Health + Wellness Center

Danielle Miguel, NMAC CAP for Asian and Youth Communities

Farah Jeune, Multimedia artist

HIV related stigma negatively impacts the fight to end the HIV epidemic in the US. In this episode, host Terrell Parker brings together a panel of guests to discuss ending HIV stigma, specifically in the Black community, so we can end the HIV epidemic in the US. 

Terrell and guests honor National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, a day that provides an opportunity to increase HIV education, testing community involvement, and treatment among black communities. Together, they discuss why we need an awareness day, what HIV stigma looks like across the multiple sectors of the Black community including HIV criminalization laws, how stigma impacts individuals living with HIV, the importance of conversations that address one another’s humanness, and a story about educating DaBaby after making comments that further drove negative HIV stigma. 

Guests:

Kenneth Pettigrew, Director for the NMAC Training Center to End the Epidemic

Daniel Driffin, HIV/AIDS Activist

Dr. Joyce Turner Keller, Bishop, CEO and founding Executive Director of ASPIRATIONS, a nonprofit HIV service organization 

Marnina Miller, Influencer raising awareness about HIV stigma

Libra Davis, Member of NMAC Constituary Advisory Panels (CAPs)

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It’s a new year and we have big plans to end the HIV Epidemic. In this episode, all RTWNMAC hosts sit down together and each share what they will be doing in 2022 to end the epidemic. 

Damián shares how NMAC’s Treatment Division is working to increase health equity and make HIV treatment accessible. Lauren shares how important leadership is to ending the HIV epidemic and how the ELEVATE Project works to empower leaders with HIV, develop their knowledge, and help them secure the bag. Chris shares how NMAC is working to end HIV stigma so people can receive culturally competent care through the ESCALATE Program. Gabriella shares how she will be working to empower women through the GLOW program–Growing Leadership Opportunities for Women. And lastly, Dernell stresses the importance of communications and how he will be working to push the right messages to the right people to end the epidemic.

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