Upcoming:

Men Who Have Sex With Men in Africa: A Research Overview and a Personal Account from an African MSM

Friday, February 3, 2012
Noon to 1:30 p.m.
W2008

Dr. Stefan Baral
Associate Director for the Center for Public Health and Human Rights

Dr. Cheikh Traore
Senior Adviser of Sexual Diversity at the United Nations Development Programme

Sponsored by the African Public Health Network, JB Grant Global Health Society, the Health and Human Rights Group and the Student Assembly
Open to the general public

For more information, please contact Chiquita Palha de Sousa at 610-417-6248 or cpalhade@jhsph.edu.

Release of new global analysis: Inattention to HIV/AIDS-related Needs of Gay Men and Other Men who have Sex with Men (MSM) Threatens “AIDS-Free Generation” Goal.
The analysis is a detailed critique of programming by international donors and eight country governments.

The media briefing addresses the groundbreaking new report that provides the most comprehensive analysis to date on the deadly shortfall in response to the AIDS epidemic among gay men and other MSM. The briefing is sponsored by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins University.

President Barack Obama recently called for the creation of an “AIDS-free generation” and directed U.S. agencies engaged in foreign assistance to factor in the treatment of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people. This new report explores how HIV/AIDS assistance is—and isn’t—being delivered to MSM and LGBT people in countries that receive assistance around the world.

WHAT:      The media tele-briefing for “Achieving an AIDS-Free Generation for Gay Men and Other MSM,” sponsored by amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research and the Center for Public Health and Human Rights at Johns Hopkins University, will bring together several researchers who worked on the report from countries including Ethiopia, Nigeria, and China. They will discuss the results and what the data say about the troubling relationship among foreign assistance, MSM, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic. The briefing will be moderated by amfAR Deputy Director, Public Policy, Owen Ryan.

WHEN:       Wednesday, January 18, 2012
                  9:00 a.m. ET – 10:00 a.m. ET

WHERE:    Conference Call

                  Dial-in Info: +1 (866) 847-7859

                  Passcode: 1564576

WHO:         Owen Ryan, Deputy Director, Public Policy, amfAR

                  Stef Baral, Associate Director, Center for Public Health and Human Rights, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

                  Henoke, report consultant from Ethiopia

                  Bede Eziefule, report consultant from Nigeria

                  Joel Simpson, report consultant from Guyana

For further information, please contact:

Cub Barrett, Manager, Program Communications, amfAR

cub.barrett@amfar.org, (212) 806-1602

March 25, 2012 - Save the Date!

AIDS Action Baltimore is commemorating their 25th anniversary with an awards brunch at the new Four Seasons Hotel at Harbor East on Sunday, March 25, 2012 from 11:30 to 2 PM.  Tickets are $100 each with tables of eight. They will be honoring John Bartlett as one of the awardees and Tony Fauci will be presenting his award. See Invitation.