In an article just published in The Conversation, Dr. El-Bassel shares three strategies to address the disproportionately high rates of HIV among Black women.
This year’s World AIDS Day theme included ending inequalities and Dr. El-Bassel addressed one of the most glaring: The disproportionately high rates of HIV among Black women in the United States. Forty years into the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Black women continue to bear the highest burden of HIV among women.
In an article just published in The Conversation, Dr. El-Bassel shares three strategies to address this inequity: Addressing life contexts and experiences, offering culturally tailored HIV care, and addressing the need for Black doctors and health care workers in addition to providing structural racism training.
Read the article: Why addressing racism against Black women in health care is key to ending the US HIV epidemic
Potential implementers of E-WORTH are welcome to get in touch with the SIG team to ask about implementation.
The E-WORTH study team
- Principal Investigators: Drs. Louisa Gilbert and Nabila El-Bassel
- First author and original Project Director: Dr. Karen Johnson
- Co-Investigator and Project Director: Dr. Dawn Goddard-Eckrich
- Co-Investigator and Implementation: Dr. Timothy Hunt
- Collaborators: NYC Department of Probation and The Fortune Society.
- Funding source: NIDA