African-American women with HIV often overlooked, under-supported

Toya Tolson of Prince George’s County suffered trauma and abuse as a child only to battle addiction as an adult. She is one of more than 100,000 African American women who are aging with HIV. Aamir Khuller, CC BY-NC-SA

The face of HIV in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had a devastating and disproportionate impact on African-American communities.

This is especially true among women; 60 percent of newly diagnosed cases of HIV in women in 2017 were African-American. Yet, African-American women’s voices are notoriously absent from the national discourse on HIV. Read More