By Loren Jones The murder of Cicely Bolden on September 6th, 2012, both heightened and inflamed our sense of sadness and rage. It also reminded us of the often daily losing battle of violence that many in this country are silently entrenched in. This silence leaves them less able to believe that the end of [...]

Women Organized to Respond to Life-threatening Diseases, U.S. Positive Women’s Network & The Greater Oakland Shadow City Coalition invite you to: AIDS 2012 Report Back & Strategy Session for the Greater Oakland Community on Friday October 12th, 2012 Join WORLD, PWN, and the Greater Oakland Shadow City Coalition* for a day of exciting, timely discussions [...]

By Susan Mull What is an AIDS-free generation?  Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton clearly stated that it will be a time when no child is born with the virus, teenagers and adults will all be at lower risk, and everyone with HIV will have treatment. Hillary Clinton continued to say, “The U.S. is committed to [...]

By Kat Griffith It is Thursday July 26th, 2012. I am traveling back home to Peoria, Illinois after over a week in Washington D.C. for the 2012 International AIDS Conference. I am sad to say that I did not even come CLOSE to doing, seeing, or learning all that I wanted to learn at AIDS [...]

By Teresa Sullivan The opening of the International Conference on the July 23, 2012 was attended by more than 30,000 people. I was sitting in amazement because this was my first time at an International AIDS conference. I truly engage with other people from other Counties that spoke different languages but had the same message: [...]

By: Claire Englund, the Huairou Commission Contact: Claire.englund@huairou.org, katie.gillett@huairou.org or 321.277.0181 AIDS 2012 schedule of events click here. After witnessing the devastating effects that HIV/AIDS had on their communities in Africa in the 1980s, and experiencing the multiple stresses that come with caring for someone on their deathbed, home-based caregivers recognized the need to combine [...]

By Dee Borrego I was fortunate enough to attend an amazing film screening of “How to Survive a Plague” directed by filmmaker David France here at AIDS 2012.  Words cannot describe how this film moved me to really understand the history of the HIV epidemic in the US.  Walking into the beautiful screening room, I [...]

By Teresa Sullivan Two years ago I was sitting in my office watching the closing of AIDS 2010 which was in Vienna. My eyes teared up when  Waheedah  Shabazz-El spoke on the work we still have to do here in the United States. I knew right then that I was going to prepare myself to [...]

By Starr Britt AIDS 2012 delegates are counting on the global community to continue to fight against the war on HIV, through solidarity, steadfastness, and the utilization of new science which could bring us to an “AIDS free generation.” Speakers at the opening ceremony of the XIX International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2012), held on Sunday [...]

By Anna Forbes Treatment as prevention (TasP) is a term used to talk about the fact that an HIV+ person who takes ARVs regularly and whose viral load is suppressed has a very low risk of transmitting HIV to another person.  Research established in the 1990s that positive women who took ARVs during pregnancy and [...]