Anywhere there’s been a need around the Black community and HIV, or women and HIV, Black women have been there, doing the work of fighting against the HIV epidemic -- and their stories are finally being told.
He went into it with the assumption that he would find stories like those told in pieces like—groups of young, mostly white men who watched as their friends, lovers, and community disappeared, and then formed groups like Gay Men’s Health Crisis and ACT UP to fight for federal recognition and fast approval of the HIV medications that were in the works.
on with their teeth. She pushed white-run AIDS groups to reach into Black communities, and when they failed to act, she started the first Black AIDS organization, BEBASHI.Or immunologist Pernessa Seele, a Black woman who created one of the first AIDS education programs and went on to found the interfaith HIV service organization The Balm in Gilead in 1989.
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