HIV and AIDS

National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day is a day to acknowledge how HIV disproportionately affects Black people. Black Americans represent 14% of the U.S. population, but 40% of new HIV infections, with black women accounting for 54% of all new HIV diagnoses in women. Lakeshore Public Media host Dee Dotson is joined by Kaye Hayes, HHS Deputy Assistant Secretary for Infectious Disease and Director of the Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy. Also joining the conversation is Alicia Diggs, Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS member who discusses the “I am a Work of ART” campaign.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy and the Executive Director of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS plans to launch a national HIV viral suppression campaign this summer 2022 entitled “I am a Work of ART” (WOA). Regionally Speaking host Dee Dotson recently spoke with Kaye Hayes, Acting Director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Infectious Disease and HIV/AIDS Policy (OIDP) and the Executive Director of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (PACHA) about the campaign.

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