XIX International AIDS Conference

“Deciding Moment: Ending the AIDS Epidemic in America Together”

Phill Wilson President and CEO Black AIDS Institute

HIV-positive

Black

Gay

Senior

United States HIV Cases by Gender, 2010

279,100

869,000

United States

Female Male

The number of males living with HIV was more than three times the number of women.

From 2006 to 2009, the estimated number of people living with HIV increased 8.2% from 1, 061,100 to 1, 146, 200. CDC, June 2012

United States HIV/AIDS Cases by Race & Ethnicity, 2010

African

Ameri

cans

Whit

es

Hispan

ics

Multi-E

thnic

Asians

Amer-Ind

ians

Pacific

Islan

ders

0200000400000600000 510600

380300222400

15700 15400 4300 1400

People Living with HIV/AIDS

Source: the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention at the CDC, June 2012.

Source: Running in place: Implication of HIV incidence Estimates Among Urban Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States and Other Industrialized Countries. AIDS Behavior 13:615-629.

70.00%

60.00%

50.00%

40.00%

30.00%

20.00%

10.00%

0.00%

Gardner’s Cascade

Vision for the National HIV/AIDS Strategy

The United States will become a place where new HIV infections are rare and when they do occur, every person regardless of age, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender identity or socio-economic circumstance, will have unfettered access to high quality, life-extending care, free from stigma and discrimination.

Implement the Affordable Care Act

Essential Benefits Package1. Annual physical

2. HIV test with every physical

(twice annually for high risk

individuals)

3. Two viral load tests each year

4. Comprehensive coverage of ARV’s

1. Fully implement the Affordable Care Act

2. HIV+ people must come out

3. Treatment on demand

4. Integrate behavioral prevention with bio-medical

interventions

5. AIDS organizations must re-tool

Five Steps to End the AIDS Epidemic

Thank You:

Positive Women’s Network, Nainna Khanna, Chris Collins, David Munar, Mike Isbell, Jen Kates, Gail Butler, Charlie Baran, Wendell Miller, Raniyah Abdus-Samad, Chris Bland, Leisha McKinley-Beach, Denishia Clark, Njideka Obijiaku, Tiffany Wright, Rig Rush, Josephine Ayankoya, Sarah Smedley, Hilary Beard, Briana Hess, Cierra Pettus, Grier Spry, Dakota North, Alan Bell, Justin Hill, Clayo Hughes, Mark Schoofs and the Black Treatment Advocates Network.