HANC Programs

On National Black HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, we honor the reflections rooted in Black excellence—the resilience, the leadership, and the commitment to care. Awareness, testing, and compassion save lives. We move forward together, informed and empowered. HANC will always stand with this community.

NMAC

Jeanne Marrazzo, CEO of the Infectious Diseases of America (IDSA), joined AVAC in a webinar: The Future of HIV Prevention: A People’s Research Agenda for Speed, Scale and Equity. The conversation was powerful, providing both context, tracking tools and key messaging on the status of the research pipeline for HIV prevention and its future.

RECORDING: https://avac.org/event/pra-2025-webinar/

AVAC

WEBINAR! Abolition for Our People - Assessing the Landscape: Authoritarianism and the fight for public health justice

Join this conversation on authoritarianism and the fight for public health justice on Thursday, January 29 at 1pm ET, where we will dig into the intersections of public health, data privacy, and state violence.

The Trump regime is rapidly advancing an agenda that merges arrest, militarized policing, and deportation with efforts to harness and weaponize massive amounts of personal information, including private, sensitive health data. This wave of state violence targets already marginalized communities, from migrants and people who use drugs to political dissidents. Too often, the fight to end the HIV epidemic sidelines the dangers of unchecked data collection, storage, and surveillance, but without strong privacy safeguards, public health can become another tool of control rather than liberation.

In this webinar, we’ll examine the recent history of attacks on public health, data privacy, and bodily autonomy within broader public health practices and actions led by the Trump administration. We’ll analyze how policing and data collection from vulnerable populations share the same logic, and work together to envision building a liberated public health system that upholds fundamental rights and is rooted in care, accountability, and human dignity.

Joining me are:
• Maritza Perez Medina, Director of Federal Affairs, Drug Policy Alliance
• Christine Mitchell, Health Instead of Punishment Program Director, Health In Partnership
• Allie Bohm, Senior Policy Counsel, New York Civil Liberties Union
• Sara Geoghegan, Senior Counsel, Electronic Privacy Information Center

REGISTER: https://streamyard.com/watch/Ph8Eg86hJ3jW