{"id":19058,"date":"2019-02-10T21:43:47","date_gmt":"2019-02-10T21:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19058"},"modified":"2019-02-10T21:43:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-10T21:43:47","slug":"eradicating-hiv-in-black-communities-requires-systemic-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/10\/eradicating-hiv-in-black-communities-requires-systemic-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Eradicating HIV in Black Communities Requires Systemic Change"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><div style=\"width: 750px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/truvada_4_border-740x525.jpg\" alt=\"[Photo: Two posters advocating for PrEP showing black women of different size and ability.]\" width=\"740\" height=\"525\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"display:inline !important;float:none;background-color:transparent;color:#4b4f53;cursor:text;font-family:'Noto Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;font-size:16px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:19.2px;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration:none;text-indent:0;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0;\">Any plan to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS must include culturally-informed interventions that meet the range of needs, desires, and interests of Black women of different age groups, ethnicities, regions, and cultural contexts.<\/span><\/p><\/div>Any plan to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS must include culturally-informed interventions that meet the range of needs, desires, and interests of Black women of different age groups, ethnicities, regions, and cultural contexts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It is not\u00a0news that recent HIV biomedical interventions in the United States, such as pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) and post-exposure prophylaxis (PEP), primarily center the needs of white gay men.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/prep-black-gay-community_us_5ace78f3e4b08337adc90f0c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\">lack of outreach<\/a> about PrEP to communities of color, coupled with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/news\/home\/20160119006859\/en\/AHF-Files-FDA-Complaint-Gilead-Truvada-PrEP\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\">initial messaging<\/a>\u00a0that primarily emphasized\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FXZcoBsoGBY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\">white gay men,<\/a>\u00a0has resulted in minimal awareness among people of color, especially <a href=\"https:\/\/hiveonline.org\/prep4women-disparities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer external\">women<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/rewire.news\/article\/2019\/02\/08\/eradicating-hiv-in-black-communities-requires-systemic-change\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Any plan to halt the spread of HIV and AIDS must include culturally-informed interventions that meet the range of needs, desires, and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19058","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-hiv"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19058\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}