Banishing Stigma: Black Voices on HIV - Take Action Toolkit
Learn About HIV/AIDS, Prevention, and Services:
- HIV.gov | What Are HIV and AIDS?
- HIV.gov | How is HIV transmitted?
- CDC | Let’s Stop HIV Together
- CDC | Ready, Set, PrEP
Learn About and Take Action to End HIV Stigma:
- Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Discovery Center | Burden of Stigma
- CDC | HIV Stigma and Discrimination
- “National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day” by CDC
- CDC | Stigma Scenarios: Support in Action
- CDC | Ways to Stop HIV Stigma and Discrimination
- UNAIDS | Challenge the Stigma, Pursue Your Right to Health
Watch Videos:
- Nature | Animated video about HIV
- PositiveSpin | Series of personal stories from real people’s experiences along HIV Continuum of Care
- CDC | Video stories that give you a glimpse into the lives of people who are living with HIV/AIDS
Read Articles:
- “28 Percent of HIV-Negative Millennials Avoid Hugging People With HIV” by Neal Broverman
- “Donja R. Love and More Launch New Playwriting Workshop for People Living With HIV” by Ryan McPhee
- “Ending the HIV Epidemic Together on National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day” by Tammy R. Beckham
- “FDA Approves Monthly Shots to Treat HIV: A combination of two injectable drugs will provide an alternative to pills for people with HIV” by Apoorva Mandavilli
- “If Life With HIV is ‘Not What It Used to Be,’ What Is It?’ – Three Black, queer writers on how HIV has shaped their sex life, career, and sense of community” by Daniel Sanchez Torres
- “Magic Johnson compares HIV and coronavirus pandemic misconceptions and impact on Black community” by Mark Medina
- “Pulitzer-Winning Poet Jericho Brown on Racism, HIV, and Finding Joy” by Neal Broverman
- “Q&A with Celeste Watkins-Hayes author of Remaking a Life: How Women Living with HIV/AIDS Confront Inequality” by Ebony Staff
- “SDG target: End the epidemics of AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and neglected tropical diseases” by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
- “Teenage author tackles HIV stigma in debut novel: ‘There has to be space for more Black narratives’” by Natalie Morris
- “The Last Black Man with HIV in San Francisco: the potential role of gentrification on HIV getting to zero achievements” study published in Lancet magazine
- “Timeline: 30 Years of AIDS in Black America” by Gretchen Gavett
- “White people can learn from it, but that’s not who I’m writing for” by Lanre Bakare, a profile of Danez Smith, a nonbinary poet living with HIV
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