News 2016
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This week, the Black AIDS Institute will be leading a delegation of twenty activists, journalists and faith leaders to attend the 21st International AIDS conference in Durban, South Africa. This year's Conference is significant in a number of ways. This will be only the second time ever that the conference will be convened in Africa. The first time was fifteen years ago, in Durban as well. The 2001 confab was the first time the world leaders had a serious conversation about providing treatment to people living in Africa. Hundreds of thousands of Africans were dying because of the high cost and lack of access to life-saving HIV drugs. Led by activists who rejected the absurd and racist binary paradigm of prevention or treatment, and forced to confront the devastation the AIDS pandemic was sowing all over the continent—not just in PowerPoint presentations, but in the faces of people in the global village and on streets of Durban, genocide that was happening all over the continent—HIV/AIDS policy makers and funders finally made a real commitment to save Black lives in Africa.
Black Treatment Advocates Travel to International AIDS Conference
Members of the Black Treatment Advocates Network
This week Black Treatment Advocates sponsored by the Black AIDS Institute will travel to Durban, South Africa, where they will attend the International AIDS Conference, which is returning to South Africa for the first time since 2000. Delegates will attend a wide variety of conference sessions with the goal of transferring knowledge back to Blacks in the U.S.
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Black AIDS Institute to Host Pre-Conference Updates at AIDS 2016
Graduates of the 2016 class of the African American HIV University Science and Treatment College
As part of its Community Science Empowerment Project and the UNAIDS/PEPFAR Fast Track Faith-Based Initiative, The Black AIDS Institute will host a one-and-one-half-day pre-conference designed to prepare delegates for specific sessions being presented at the International AIDS Conference. The pre-conference will follow the conference tracks: Clinical Research, Epidemiology and Prevention Research, Basic Science Research, Implementation Research, Social and Political Research, Policy and Human Rights. Workshop objectives include:
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Daily Breakfast Update Workshops to Take Place at AIDS 2016
Breakfast updates
To maximize participation in the International AIDS Conference and the successful sharing of information with the U.S. Black community both during the conference and once participants return home, beginning on Tuesday, July 17, the Black AIDS Institute will conduct daily breakfast updates for its delegates and other Black Americans attending the conference. Ninety minutes in length, each update will review information from sessions presented the previous day and provide an overview of the selected sessions for the current day. Conference speakers and researchers will be included in the briefings to share information and answer questions.
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Black AIDS Institute to Host Daily Webinars for U.S. Blacks During IAC
Webinars
BAI will host daily webinars that will be web-cast to BTAN chapters in 20 U.S. cities and to the 35,000 subscribers of BAI's Black News Weekly. Delegates will provide presentations to review the key updates from the previous day's scientific sessions. The webinars will be recorded and made available to those unable to participate in real time.
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