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Let’s talk HIV and HIV stigma in the U.S. South. Last week, GLAAD published its findings from the annual State of HIV Stigma Report. The 5th annual report, created and produced by GLAAD’s Communities of Color department in partnership with the Gilead COMPASS Initiative®, is the only one of its kind and aims to track Americans’ […]

“Since 1999, National Black/HIV Awareness Day has been observed to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS prevention, care, and treatment in Black communities.” – Darian Aaron, Communications Director of Counter Narrative Project (CNP) 

Background The reality of HIV and AIDS has evolved in the United States since it was first brought to public consciousness in the 1980s. While we have seen significant progress on prevention and treatment, public understanding lags and the unwarranted negative stigma associated with the disease continues to be an obstacle to eradication. Advances […]

[…] sex during the same period is deferred for three months from the most recent sexual contact. Any individual who has taken any oral antiviral medication to prevent HIV (PrEP or PEP) is deferred for three months from the most recent dose. These medications may delay detection of HIV and result in false negative test […]

Introduction from Sarah Kate Ellis Since 2020, GLAAD, in partnership with the Gilead COMPASS initiative, has been tracking the State of HIV Stigma in the United States, asking key questions each year about Americans’ attitudes and knowledge of HIV, and the stigma that exists around the virus and people living with HIV. Our report […]

GLAAD, the world’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) media advocacy organization, is releasing its second annual State of HIV Stigma Study, a national survey among U.S. adults with the sample supplied by research firm Cint. The survey, funded by Gilead COMPASS Initiative®, measures American attitudes toward HIV and people living with […]

[…] Campaign, Relationship Unleashed, and leaders from the Gilead COMPASS Initiative including Southern AIDS Coalition, Emory University, the University of Houston and Wake Forest University: “People living with HIV today, when on effective treatment, lead long and healthy lives and cannot sexually transmit HIV.” “At a time when HIV continues to disproportionately impact Black Americans […]

[…] 35th commemoration of World AIDS Day, observed on December 1 of every year since 1988 and serves as a reminder of the global struggle to end the HIV/AIDS epidemic and HIV stigma. World AIDS Day is an opportunity to honor those we have lost, and is also a rallying cry to commit to working […]