African Americans

2-7-2020The 2020 National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (NBHAAD) theme, We’re in This Together, emphasizes the importance of support from friends, family, col…

2-7-2020HIV and AIDS have had a disproportionate impact on African Americans from the beginning of the epidemic. In 1981, when the CDC reported the first five cases of …

2-6-2020For African Americans, HIV awareness is not about one day; it is about putting our health first and our willingness to address hard issues and have tough conver…

9-25-2019As of March 2019, the program formerly known as the Secretary’s Minority AIDS Initiative Fund (SMAIF) has been renamed. The program is now known as the Mi…

3-26-2019Three digital divide trends we’re watching: mobile devices, 5G networks, and screen-time limits for youth.

2-22-2019In 2017, Blacks/African Americans accounted for 13% of the U.S. population but 43% of the 38,739 new HIV diagnoses in the United States and dependent areas.

7-17-2018Forty-five percent of teens now say they are online on a near-constant basis, up from 24% the last time that Pew surveyed teens on technology use in 2015.

7-4-2018As we pause for the 4th of July holiday, we thought it was a good opportunity to look back at the posts that were of particular interest to our readers this yea…

3-7-2018Our coverage from the 2018 Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI) in Boston continued yesterday with three interviews with Federal HIV l…

3-6-2018A new CDC analysis suggests that only a small percentage of Americans who could benefit from pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), a daily pill for HIV prevention, h…