{"id":19432,"date":"2019-02-26T17:13:43","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:13:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.wordpress.com\/?p=19432"},"modified":"2019-02-26T17:13:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-26T17:13:43","slug":"to-effectively-talk-about-hiv-we-need-to-listen-to-black-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/26\/to-effectively-talk-about-hiv-we-need-to-listen-to-black-women\/","title":{"rendered":"To Effectively Talk About HIV, We Need to Listen to Black Women"},"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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/02\/aids.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"bolded\">THE FACE OF HIV<\/span>\u00a0in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had a devastating and disproportionate impact on African-American communities.<\/p>\n<p>This is especially true among women;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/hiv\/pdf\/library\/reports\/surveillance\/cdc-hiv-surveillance-report-2017-vol-29.pdf\">60 percent of newly diagnosed cases<\/a>\u00a0of HIV in women in 2017 were African-American. Yet, African-American\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/slate.com\/technology\/2004\/10\/black-women-and-aids.html\">women\u2019s voices are notoriously absent<\/a>\u00a0from the national discourse on HIV.<\/p>\n<p>Largely invisible to a fractured health care system, these women are often breadwinners and matriarchs whose\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/eprint\/Myuskkv3tEVxjsXXyxBt\/full\">families count on them<\/a>\u00a0for support and care. <a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/2019\/02\/26\/hiv-listen-to-black-women\/\">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>THE FACE OF HIV\u00a0in the United States has long been white gay men, even though the epidemic has had a devastating 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-19432","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\/19432","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=19432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}