Us Helping Us and Transgender Health Empowerment co-sponsored a town hall meeting on HIV/AIDS that was held on January 15th and focused on new strategies to fight HIV in DC. Pictures from the event our available on The Center Flickr Photo Stream.Panelists included City Council Member Jim Graham, Acting Director of the Office of HIV/AIDS Policy Department of Health and Human Services Christopher Bates, Director of the HIV/AIDS Administration Dr. Shannon Hader, and the DC HIV Community Planning Group Community Co-Chair A. Toni Young.
Much of the discussion focused around the new report on HIV/AIDS in DC released by the HIV/AIDS Administration. The report showed the District’s rate for newly reported AIDS cases is higher than rates in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York City, Detroit, or Chicago. 1 in 20 people in the District is living with HIV/AIDS.
Joey DiGuglielmo from the Washington Blade writes: "LAST WEEK’S AIDS town hall meeting was a sobering, eye-opening experience. It raised a bounty of murky, dire issues and offered no easy answers."
>> Continue reading Joey's article, A City in Crisis
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