Meeting on Transgender Community and HIV/AIDS Research

Here's a quick update on what's happening with the Open Letter on Sex and Gender that many DC HIV/AIDS Research Community Advisory Boards (CABS) co-authored.

As you may remember, Jessica Xavier and I had an opportunity to meet with members of the Community Partners on October 12th. The Community Partners is an overarching community advisory board for the Division of AIDS made up of representatives from all six international research networks.

Jessica did an amazing job at the ACTION Lunch where we discussed this topic, and it was great to have her at this meeting with Community Partners. Community Partners has formed an adhoc committee to look at this issue. The picture included in this post is Jessica and I with members of that Adhoc Committee. I believe we did a good job addressing their concerns and questions, and I'm hopefull that the Community Partners will be addressing this issue with the Division of AIDS in the future.

Thanks to all the CABS that signed on to the original letter for getting the ball rolling. I'll definitely keeping pushing this forward as best I can and keep you all posted as well.