In the service of the communities of the national day of awareness of black HIV

Public and private partners continue to combat HIV in the black community by emphasizing the continuous importance of the national day of awareness of black HIV. HIV continues to have an impact in a disproportionate way to the black community, stealing mothers, fathers, husbands, women, sisters and brothers. Observed for the first time in 1999, this day of conscience recognized this difficult situation.

According to the Journal of Healthcare, Science and the Humanités, “During the comparison of American populations in black and white, respectively, through the impact of HIV, the prevalence and mortality linked to AIDS, black Americans experience disparities struck in all categories, including the incidence of HIV” and “from 2015 to 2019, MSM blacks represented more than 36% of new infections to HIV diagnosed annually ”.

Randevyn Pierre, director of national engagement on the ground in external affairs at VIIV Healthcare, recognized the importance of treating the risk of HIV in the black community. “The national day of awareness of HIV / AIDS is a timely reminder that we still have work to do in the fight against HIV. This is why VIIV Healthcare works hand in hand with the black community to activate support networks and the link with care services, as well as to provide culturally relevant programs, “he said in a declaration to Black Health Matters. “We continue to strive to make sure that each person affected by HIV receives the care and the support they need. Our ambition is clear: to put an end to the HIV epidemic once and for all. ”

VIIV Healthcare works to educate people on HIV / AIDS thanks to community engagement and the dissemination of the media created to reduce stigma.

“It is very important to be definitively culturally sensitive to culture,” said Black Health Medicine Institute in Satcher Health Leadership of Satcher Health Leadership, doctor.

Black learning institutions work together to help prevent the spread of HIV by using culturally informed approaches. “It is important that we teach students preventive health care, in particular with regard to their sexual and reproductive health, with particular attention to HIV education and prevention,” said Christopher Ervin, MD, director of community initiatives in the MSM family medicine department in a declaration to Black Health Matters.

The Satcher Health Leadership Institute of the Morehouse School of Medicine works with Fort Valley State University to prepare, pack and distribute 200 care packages to students and members of the region of the region.

These packages will include crucial articles, such as hand towels to promote physical activity, a hand disinfectant to combat the spread of transmitted diseases, information on health resources and HIV test kits at home.

The kits will allow recipients to learn their status in a few minutes. They will also provide information as quickly as possible. “The tests are just one element,” said Dr. Stanfer. “We are talking about the whole health, the whole body, the health and the care of the mind and the mind.”

“If someone is diagnosed, we have to make sure there is care,” she added. “This is what we have to do to talk about new and innovative approaches to educate and increase tests.”

Innovation at the Satcher Health Leadership Institute includes the promotion of an inclusive environment by developing their prosperous Georgia initiative with a working group on HIV actions and community partners. “We invited the local churches to be part of the messaging,” said Dr. Stanfer. They also share resources in hairdressing salons, hairdressing salons and local civic organizations. The goal is to go where conversations occur to share resources, not move them or avoid the people who have them.

Not all blacks are at the same level of risk of contracting HIV – factors such as location, socioeconomic status and sexual orientation. A 2019 article from the Journal of Aids and Behavior argued that specific areas in the South require a unique approach to intervention.

Fort Valley students live in the county of Peach, in Georgia. The research of the Shli Health Equity Tracker shows that the region of Fort Valley constitutes “83.5% of its prevalence of HIV despite the fact that only 43.9% of the population represent”.

Practical tests could change this.

Previously, being tested for HIV required a trip to the office of a doctor or a clinic. Today, the process is as simple as administering oral swab in the privacy of its dormitory or backyard. According to the Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases, “quick tests can be very sensitive and specific” and “options such as oral liquid tests can achieve great precision, are less technically demanding than blood tests and eliminating sharp objects and the problem of organic elimination.”

Historically, black colleges and universities (HBCU) are traditionally at the forefront of health problems with an impact on the black community with intervention and compassion.

“People react to whom they hear and see often,” said Dr. Stanfer. “It is a voice of confidence in a space of trust.”

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