The Evolution Of AIDS Activism
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2012-07-19/evolution-aids-activism
The world's leading AIDS researchers and activists come to Washington next week for the first International AIDS Conference held in the United States in 22 years. With deaths from AIDS down but HIV infection rates still high, we explore how the political, social and medical issues have changed in the three decades since the disease was discovered.
Guests
Adam Tenner
Executive Director, Metro TeenAIDS
Cornelius Baker
Longtime Washington AIDS advocate, former executive director of the Whitman-Walker Clinic, member of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS
Christine Campbell
Vice President of National Advocacy and Organizing, Housing Works
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Please offer some advise to a multicultural masters-degree program teacher who believes that any and all discussion of HIV is the use of condoms, or the practice of safe sex. Once that happens, HIV as an issue or crisis will end.
Please expound.
Also, the advance of social networking has ended all discussion of HIV transmission, as the proliferation of bare backing as a way of dealing with HIV protection is fast becoming the norm. Just look at the gay men's websites such as Adam or manhunt?
Dear Kojo,
I wanted to make a few remarks regarding today's segment on the International AIDS Conference and the National HIV/AIDS Strategy. The Strategy was created to improve the coordination and effectiveness of the national response to HIV/AIDS. For decades we have under-invested in the HIV-related needs of gay men relative to their share of the epidemic. The Strategy calls for funding levels to be closely informed by the US epidemic profile. Reforms instituted by the Strategy are meant to make the response more effective for all populations affected by AIDS in America.
Chris Collins, VP and Director, Public Policy
amfAR
202 331 8600
chris.collins@amfar.org