Aug 19: Act Queer! Teleconference on HIV/AIDS
Despite the lack of leadership from the Left and LGBT Movement on the AIDS epidemic, queer and trans people, poor people and people of color continue to be disproportionately impacted by the epidemic. Recently there have been some major developments in HIV/AIDS policy and research, and we anted to share with you these exciting updates:
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Thursday, August 19, 2010
2pm-3:30pm EST/11am-12:30pm PST
Conference Call # (712) 432-0600
Password: 751219#
Moderator: Kenyon Farrow, Queers for Economic Justice (New York, NY)
Presenters include:
David Ernesto Munar, AIDS Foundation of Chicago
TOPIC: National HIV/AIDS Strategy, what it is and the implications for how we think about HIV prevention.
Luis Gutierrez-Mock, Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
TOPIC: The implications the recent CDC study linking poverty and HIV on trans communities.
Kellan Baker, National Coalition for LGBT Health
TOPIC: Coalition’s work on LGBT-health related data collection as it relates to most marginalized LGBT people.
MATERIALS: LGBT Health Disparities By Race
TBA…The Caprisa Microbicide study from South Africa, and its implications for the search for a microbicide to prevent HIV infection.
was this teleconference recorded, and will the recording be available? We would like to post or link to it on the HIV Drug & Alcohol Task Force (HIV DATF) website.