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Alicia Keys (in white hat), Valerie Jarrett (front center), Ada Adimora (front row, second from right) gather for a meeting focused on black women living with HIV/AIDS, held in conjunction with the XIX International AIDS Conference.
Last Saturday, one day before the start of the XIX International AIDS Conference, the Kaiser Family Foundation and the National Black Women’s HIV/AIDS Network held a meeting and community gathering for black women living with HIV/AIDS. Among the guests were Valerie Jarrett, special advisor to President Obama, R&B singer Alicia Keys, and Ada Adimora, professor of medicine and epidemiology at UNC.
Professor Adimora’s research is focused on the epidemiology of STIs and HIV in women and minorities, health disparities, and the social determinants of health. Washington, D.C., where the global AIDS conference was held, has one of the highest HIV rates in the country. Of the 4,000 women living with HIV in D.C., 92% are African-American.
Read Valerie Jarret’s Huffington Post article about the event.
