NMAC’s Love Letter to Black Women: An Interview With Toni Newman Posted in: News, Press

Getty Images/Flashpop In 2021, TheBody developed a series devoted to Black women and how they’ve been excluded from conversations around HIV prevention, including pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP). While working on articles on that series, I learned that medical racism was developed to hurt Black women (and it does) and realized that if the U.S. eliminated all of the bad things that target Black women, those efforts would protect everyone else in the country as well. I was recently reminded… Continue reading

NMAC Congressional Round Table on Trans Health and Safety Posted in: Press

With trans rights under assault across the country, NMAC led an emergency roundtable on Capitol Hill on July 27, 2023, with members of Congress and nationally-known medical professionals and policy experts to demand urgent action to protect trans Americans. The session was hosted by Congressional Equality Caucus Co-Chair Mark Takano (D-CA) and Congressional HIV/AIDS Caucus Co-Chair Barbara Lee (D-CA). It was also attended by Congresswoman Sara Jacobs (D-CA). In addition to the members of Congress,… Continue reading