2010 HIV Research Catalyst Forum

Women and HIV Prevention Research: Cocktails for Success workshop needed far more time but was excellently facilitated by Hadiyah Charles and Naina Kanna.  The information they delivered opened the dialogue to highlight the apparent research questions that are simply unanswered as it relates to the attention of women’s needs in prevention research in the United States. How can HIV Prevention Research and Treatment make women a priority?  Clearly we need to uncover the many layers of women’s lives in the United States, and how HIV affects women specifically.  The first item in our “Make-Up Kit” in the “Toolkit” of HIV prevention research and treatment… the “Happy Meal”.

A lovely African American woman over the age of 60 shared a story with the group.  It follows, in the senior community the men get their checks at the beginning of the month and the younger woman (25-45) years old come in, provide the men with company and many times sex.  Those younger women, the at-risk, "non-identified risk" woman sees these visits as a means to her survival considering, "single black women have a median wealth of $100 and Hispanic women $120 respectively, while their same-race male conterparts have $7,900 and $9,730.  The median wealth of single white women is $41,500. Source:http://www.insightcced.org/communities/Closing-RWG.html  read more »