Founder and Director; Duke AIDS Legal Project; Director, Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative
AIDS In America
July 24, 2012 - 8:00am - 1:00pm |
The Washington Post
Overview
More than 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with HIV/AIDS today, more than at any time in the history of the epidemic. Washington Post Live, in partnership with the Ford Foundation and together with the Kaiser Family Foundation, hosted AIDS in America: The Invisible Epidemic on Tuesday, July 24. While there have been great medical advances in the three decades since the first cases, AIDS continues to take a devastating toll on Americans. Certain communities, especially African Americans -- including women and gay and bisexual men in the black community -- have been particularly affected and experts at this forum discussed strategies to slow the rate of infection and better treat those with the HIV/AIDS. This forum was timed to coincide with the International AIDS Conference taking place in Washington, DC.
Speakers
Speaker Highlights
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Luis Ubiñas, president of the Ford Foundation, delivered introductory remarks.
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Surgeon General Regina Benjamin says getting tested for HIV should be as routine as getting your blood pressure checked.
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Collins, Vice President and Director of Public Policy at amfAR, said, “People need to come forward and demand the healthcare they deserve.”
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Charles, senior Vice President of AIDS United said there is stigma attached to AIDS because “it’s about sex; it’s about drugs; it’s about racism and poverty and homophobia.”
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Fields, President of the National Black Leadership Commission on AIDS, said sexual education needs to be comprehensive.
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Phil Wilson, founder and director of the Black AIDS Institute, said the single most important thing in the fight against AIDS is to fully implement the Affordable Care Act.
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Secretary of Health and Human Services Sebelius talked about treatment as prevention.
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Grant, endowed investigator at the Institute of Virology and Immunology, UCSF, said stigma is embedded in our language.
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McAllaster, Founder and Director of the Duke AIDS Legal Project, said HIV-criminalization laws need to be repealed.
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Millett said the Obama administration has gone far and above expectations with regards to AIDS policy.
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Nalls, executive director of The Women’s Collective, said we need an infrastructure built to serve women.
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Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Phil Wilson, and Vignetta Charles discussed AIDS in America.
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Hiers, CEO of AIDS Alabama, said people with HIV should not wait to get sick to take medicine.
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Wilson, founder of the Black AIDS Institute, said, “We need to build an army of trained patient navigators.”
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius talked with Jonathan Capehart about AIDS in America.
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Carolyn McAllaster, Robert Grant, and Greg Millett discussed next steps and solutions to the HIV/AIDS crisis.
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Kathie Hiers, C. Virginia Fields, Patricia Nalls, and Chris Collins discussed HIV/AIDS and communities in crisis.
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Fauci, director of NIAID, NIH, describes the importance of changing behavior when treating HIV.
Photo Gallery
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Jonathan Capehart and Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
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July 24, 2012 - from left, Washington Post Live Editor Mary Jordan, US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, Black AIDS Institute Founder Phil Wilson, AIDS United Senior VP Vignetta Charles at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Phil Wilson, Founder of Black AIDS Institute, speaks at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin with Anthony Fauci and Mary Jordan.
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NIAID Director Anthony Fauci
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Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.
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Jackie Judd, Greg Millet, and Carolyn McAllaster of Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Vignetta Charles, Senior VP AIDS United, at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Mary Jordan, US Surgeon General Regina Benjamin, NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, Phil Wilson, and Vignetta Charles.
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Patricia Nalls, executive director, The Women's Collective
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Robert Grant, Endowed Investigator UCSF
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Robert Grant, Endowed Investigator UCSF, at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Mary Jordan, Editor of Washington Post Live, at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summt
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Chris Collins, VP amfAR, at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Ray Suarez, C. Virginia Fields, Chris Collins, Kathie Hiers, and Patricia Nalls at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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C. Vignetta Fields, President, NationL Black Leadership Commission on AIDS Inc.
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Ray Suarez moderating a panel at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit.
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Kathie Hiers, CEO, AIDS Alabama, at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Carolyn McAllaster, Southern HIV/AIDS Strategy Initiative, at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Jackie Judd moderates a forum at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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Jonathan Capehart and Health & Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at Washington Post Live AIDS in America Summit
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