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XIX International AIDS Conference . “Deciding Moment: Ending the AIDS Epidemic in America Together” Phill Wilson President and CEO Black AIDS Institute. HIV-positive. Black . Gay. Senior . United States HIV Cases by Gender, 2010.
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XIX International AIDS Conference “Deciding Moment: Ending the AIDS Epidemic in America Together” Phill Wilson President and CEO Black AIDS Institute
HIV-positive Black Gay Senior
70.00% 60.00% 50.00% 40.00% 30.00% 20.00% 10.00% 0.00% Source: Running in place: Implication of HIV incidence Estimates Among Urban Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries. AIDS Behavior 13:615-629.
Vision for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy The United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.
Essential Benefits Package • Annual physical • HIV test with every physical (twice annually for high risk individuals) • Two viral load tests each year • Comprehensive coverage of ARV’s
Five Steps to End the AIDS Epidemic • Fully implement the Affordable Care Act • HIV+ people must come out • Treatment on demand • Integrate behavioral prevention with bio-medical interventions • AIDS organizations must re-tool
Thank You: Positive Women’s Network, NainnaKhanna, Chris Collins, David Munar, Mike Isbell, Jen Kates, Gail Butler, Charlie Baran, Wendell Miller, RaniyahAbdus-Samad, Chris Bland, Leisha McKinley-Beach, Denishia Clark, NjidekaObijiaku, Tiffany Wright, Rig Rush, Josephine Ayankoya, Sarah Smedley, Hilary Beard, Briana Hess, CierraPettus, Grier Spry, Dakota North, Alan Bell, Justin Hill, Clayo Hughes, Mark Schoofs and the Black Treatment Advocates Network.