WNYC Radio Interview on PrEP - Featuring Dr. Robert Grant

"I think we need to find better ways to engage young people... HIV is a problem that can be solved, it's not just something you have to be afraid of, that you have to stay home, cowering from..."

via The Leonard Lopate Show on WNYC

It's been over a year since The FDA approved Truvada, a once a day medication that prevents HIV infection. But why are so few people taking it? Dr. Robert Grant, a professor at the University of California San Francisco, talks about the drug and why it’s slow to catch on. He’s the lead scientist who developed the treatment, which is known as “pre-exposure prophylaxis” or PrEP.

Chicago Training on HIV Prevention and Treatment Science - Feb 10 to 12

If you're in the Chicago area and you’re interested in updates on HIV science and treatment, this training is for you!

BTAN Chicago is hosting a training event on February 10, 11, 12 at the University of Chicago from 10AM-4PM.

Knapp Center for Biomedical Discovery

Please RSVP to Antoine Maxwell at antoine.maxwell@me.com.

PrEP Education Events to Honor National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

The Black AIDS Institute has partnered with HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Region IV office to support the Institute’s Black Treatment Advocates Networks(BTAN) in providing PrEP education in recognition of National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The Institute’s goal is to ensure that Black communities have access to all HIV prevention tools such as PrEP information, education, and knowledge of local PrEP resources.

“We have the tools to end the AIDS epidemic, the question is no longer CAN we but WILL we end the epidemic”—Phill Wilson, CEO Black AIDS Institute.