Browsing: Black AIDS Institute

Today the Black AIDS Institute, in partnership with Gilead Sciences, is releasing its 2016 report on the State of AIDS in Black America: “Black Lives Matter: What’s PrEP Got to Do With It?” The report focuses on what Black communities need to know about pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and other new biomedical HIV prevention tools.

On May 15, 2012 a 17 member federal advisory committee unanimously voted to recommend that the FDA approve OraSure Technologies Inc.’s OraQuick In-Home HIV Test citing that the accessibility factor of the test outweighs the risks of false results.

One in a weekly series about the Black AIDS Institute’s Greater Than AIDS ambassadors, who are using their VIP status in Black America to increase awareness of HIV/AIDS

Toni Young is the founder and executive director of the Community Education Group in Washington, D.C. Since January she has served as moderator for the Road to AIDS 2012 national town hall meetings.